Foreword – Arvind Gupta vii
Introduction – Arpita Mitra xi
Keynote Address: Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam— xxix
the Precept and Practice in India – S. Gurumurthy
1. Indian Philosophical Heritage for Humanity 1
– Shashi Prabha Kumar
2. Buddhist Remains in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, 18
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzistan and Kazakhstan
– Dilip K. Chakrabarti
3. Nature and Purpose of Scientific Knowledge: 23
The Indian and Greco-European Perspectives
– M.D. Srinivas
4. Indian Grammatical Theories from a Computational 57
Perspective
– Amba Kulkarni
5. India’s Heritage of Religious Pluralism 72
– Jeffery D. Long
6. Swami Vivekananda’s Universal Religion: 94
A Futuristic Faith-System Free of Time and Place
– Swami Narasimhananda
7. The Kural and Ethics 101
– Pradeep K. Gautam
8. Can Dharma and Business be Coterminous? 116
–Gunjan Pradhan Sinha
9. Special Session on Hindu Studies Abroad: 123
Problems and Prospects – Inputs from Arvind Sharma, Jeffery Long, Basant Gupta, Swami Narasimhananda
Notes on Contributors 151
Index 159
