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020			_a978351361657 (pbk)
041			_aeng
080			_a233-23 _bDES
100			_aDesai, Meghnad
245			_aWho Wrote the Bhagavadgita : _bA Secular Inquiry into a Sacred Text
260			_bHarper Element _c2014 _aNew Delhi
300			_axiii, 192p.
520			_aA humanist critique of the Gita, 'the most influential work in Indian thought'The Gita is an evolving response which deals with the conflicts between Veda and Vedanta and then with the challenge posed to Vedanta by Buddhism. Its shift to Bhakti is the climax of the battle between Brahmanism and Buddhism. There are probably multiple authors of the Gita as shown by stylistic changes and the frequent shift of subject matter. For Meghnad Desai, Gita is a secular text, a result of human creation over several centuries. He also contends that some themes in the Gita reinforce social inequality and lack of concern for the other and to that extent he finds Gita to be toxic.
650			_aBhagavadgita
690			_aGeneral
942			_cBK
999			_c59127 _d59127