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  • TITLE
  • CERTIFICATE
  • DECLARATION
  • PREFACE
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • CONTENTS
  • I. INTRODUCTION
  • Statement of the Problem
  • Communal Consequences in India
  • Hypothesis
  • The Ultimate Goal of the Study
  • The present study attempts
  • MethodoIogy
  • Definition and Clarification of Terms
  • Religious Pluralism
  • Notes and References
  • II. HINDU APPROACH TO RELIGIOUS PLURALISM
  • A. HINDU SACRED TEXTS AND RELIGIOUS PLURALISM
  • 1. THE RIGVEDA
  • 2. THE BHAGAVAD GITA
  • 3. EPICS AND PURANAS
  • 4. EVALUATION
  • B. MODERN HINDU RESPONSES TO RELIGIOUS PLURALISM
  • 1. Swami Dayananda Saraswati
  • 2. Swami Vivekananda
  • 3. V.D. Savarkar
  • 4. M.S. Golwalkar
  • 5. Evaluation
  • Notes and References
  • III. CHRISTIAN APPROACH TO RELIGIOUS PLURALISM
  • A. THE ROOTS OF CHRISTIAN COMMUNALISM
  • 1. ABSOLUTISTIC STANDPOINT
  • 2. INCLUSIVISTIC STANDPOINT
  • B. CHRISTIANITY AND CONVERSION
  • 1. CONVERSION AS PEREMPTORINESS
  • 2. CONVERSION AND THE BIBLE
  • 3. CONVERSION IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
  • 4. CONVERSION IN MISSION HISTORY
  • 4. CASTE SYSTEM AND CHRISTIAN CONVERSION
  • 5. HINDU RESPONSE TO CONVERSlON AND CASTE
  • 6. EVALUATION
  • C. RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND THE QUESTION OF CONVERSION
  • 1. FREEDOM OF RELIGION
  • 2. RIGHT TO PROPAGATE AND CONVERSION
  • 3. THEOLOGICAL INCOMPATIBILITY
  • D. PLURALISTIC STANDPOINT
  • 1. THE COPERNICAN REVOLUTION IN THEOLOGY
  • 2. THE RELATIVITY OF ALL REVELATIONS
  • 3. EVALUATION
  • Notes and References
  • IV. ISLAMIC APPROACH TO RELIGIOUS PLURALISM
  • A. THE ROOTS OF ISLAMlC COMMUNALISM
  • 1. THEOLOGICAL STANDPOINT
  • 2. THE CULTURAL STANDPOINT
  • 3. PSYCHOLOGICAL STANDPOINT
  • B. MODERN ISLAMIC HERMENEUTICAL APPROACH TO RELIGIOUS PLURALISM
  • 1. SUFISM - A NEW HERMENEUTICAL PARADIGM
  • 2. MODERN INDIAN ISLAMIC HERMENEUTICS
  • 1. SIR SYED AHMED KHAN
  • 2. MOULANA ABUL KALAM AZAD
  • Notes and References
  • V. GANDHlAN APPROACH TO CONTEMPORARY COMMUNALISM
  • A. COMMUNAL LANDSCAPE OF GANDHIAN ERA
  • B. TOWARDS A NEW HERMENEUTICS FOR A SYNTHETIC CULTURE
  • 1. GANDHIAN INTERPRETATION OF ADVAITA
  • 2. GANDHIAN INTERPRETATION OF ANEKANTAVADA
  • C. ANEKNTAVADA AS A BRIDGE BETWEEN ASTIKA AND NASTIKA RELIGIONS
  • Notes and References
  • VI. CONCLUSION
  • SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY