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The gritty landscape and language of the working man from a great forgotten writer
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SuśRuta S Name Is Synonymous With India S Surgical Inheritance. A Legendary Figure, He Is Believed To Have Lived And Taught In Varanasi Several Centuries Before The Buddha, And Composed The SuśRuta Tantra Which Became A Timeless Medical Classic. Though The Original Text Was Lost Long Ago A Redaction By NāGāRjuna Survived As SuśRuta Samhita And Won Universal Acclaim. The Samhita Is A Study Of The Human Condition In Health And Disease With Undisguised Emphasis On Surgery, And Rivals Caraka S Classic In Authority. In The Legacy Of SuśRuta, The Text Of SuśRuta Samhita Has Been Recast In A Thematic Fashion Without Sacrificing Any Of The Content Of The Original Chapters. Furthermore, It Pre...
As late as the last quarter of the twentieth century, there were expectations that Islam’s political and cultural influence would dissipate as the advance of westernization brought modernisation and secularisation in its wake. Not only has Islam failed to follow the trajectory pursued by variants of Christianity, namely confinement to the private sphere and depoliticisation, but it has also forcefully re-asserted itself as mobilisations in its name challenge the global order in a series of geopolitical, cultural and philosophical struggles. The continuing (if not growing) relevance of Islam suggests that global history cannot simply be presented as a scaled up version of that of the West. ...