Department of Anthropology, Dr. Hari Sihgh Gour University, Gour Nagar, Saugor, 470003, [MP], India.
His important publications are
Hindu Caste System and the Ritual Idiom (New Delhi, 1976),
The Realm of the Extra-Human: Actions and Ideas and The Realm of the Extra-Human: Agents and Audiences (The Hague, 1976),
The two volumes of the World Anthropolocy co-edited by him under the editorships of Agehananda Bharati (as submissions of the IXth International Corgress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (Chicago, 1973).
Initially emerging as a rebel school of philosophy, Buddhism soon carved its independent niche as a popular theo-philosophical system. Right from its inception, its philosophy had aroused the keen interest and attracted the abiding attention of the masses; for it was preached in the land of its nativity and the adjoining countries, embraced it as a new path of salvation with its pragmatic emphases on an ethics easy to practise and a metaphysics easy to understand. Several renowned Indologists took to its study; and it found its reflection in the critical works here and the creative writings there. International political circles and peace forums got enlivened with the Buddhist philosophy. To the world that was torn by the woes of the two wars, it braodcast the humanitarian message of peaceful co-existence and a veritably sane and sound political philosophy for the regulation of national and international relations here and the promotion of universal peace, prosperity, progress and mutual understanding there. The present paper makes an attempt to highlight some of these aspects.
