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Nanda, Meera, 1957-

A field guide to post-truth India / Meera Nanda. - First edition. - 194 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-189) and index.

Introduction:
Chapter 1. Big Lies and Deep Lies in Post-Truth India.;
Chapter 2. Defending Tradition, Defying Science: Ayurveda in the Time of COVID-19;
Chapter 3. The Dark Age of the Unicorn: Searching for Indigenous Aryans;
Chapter 4. India’s Long Goodbye to Darwin;
Chapter 5 . Yogic Perception and Hindu Sciences, from Early Beginnings to Our Troubled Times;
Appendix. Science Sanskritized: How Modern Science Became a Handmaiden of Hindu Nationalism;
Bibliography;
Index.

This book describes the refashioning of thought in contemporary India. The thread that runs through the essays collected here is that under the pretext of decolonization of the Indian mind, our fundamental conceptions of reality and truth are being brought in line with “Indian Knowledge Systems.” A post-truth culture is emerging in which myths substitute for history, pseudoscience parades as science, mysticism lays claims as a legitimate scientific method and baldfaced lies drown out objective facts. Post-secular India is on its way to becoming a post-truth society.

ISBN: 9789383968442 9383968443

Source: Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office

LCCN: 2024358777

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Hinduism and politics--India.
Hinduism and science--India.
Hindouisme et politique--Inde.
Hindouisme et sciences--Inde.

LC Class. No.: BL1215.P65 / N36 2024

Dewey Class. No.: 320.550954