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sacrificial ritual, as well as medicine...
Roland remarks thut
Indians develop a 'radar' conscience that orients them to others, makes
them say things'that are appropriate to person and context...
So rasa in aesthetics,
moksa in the 'aims of life', sannydsa in the life-stages, sphota in semantics,
and bhakti in religion define themselves against a background of inexorable
contextuality...
The new preferred names give
no clue to birth-place, father's name, caste, sub-caste and sect, as all the
traditional names did: I once found in a Kerala college roster, three
'Joseph Stalins' and one 'Karl Marx'...
When
Is there an Indian way of thinking? An informal essay 157
English is borrowed into (or imposed on) Indian contexts, it fits into the
Sanskrit slot; it acquires many of the characteristics of Sanskrit, the older
native Father-tongue, its pan-Indian elite character—as a medium of laws,
science and administration, and its formulaic patterns; it becomes part of
Indian multiple diglossia (a characteristic of context-sensitive societies)...
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