Routledge Handbook Of Contemporary India Paperback 1

Knut A. Jacobsen

India is the second largest country in the world with regard to population, the worldâ€s largest democracy and by far the largest country in South Asia, and one of the most diverse and pluralistic nations in the world in terms of official languages, cultures, religions and social identities. Indians have for centuries exchanged ideas with other cultures globally and some traditions have been transformed in those transnational and transcultural encounters and become successful innovations with an extraordinary global popularity. India is an emerging global power in terms of economy, but in spite of Indiaâ€s impressive economic growth over the last decades, some of the most serious problems of Indian society such as poverty, repression of women, inequality both in terms of living conditions and of opportunities such as access to education, employment, and the economic resources of the state persist and do not seem to go away.

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Knut A. Jacobsen is Professor of Religion at the University of Bergen, Norway. His previous publications include Yoga in Modern Hinduism: Hariharānanda Ä€raṇya and Sāṃkhyayoga, and Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition: Salvific Space. He is the editor in chief of the six volumes Brillâ€s Encyclopedia of Hinduism.

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