Abstract

Abstract Christian‐Muslim influence on modern Hindu and Hindu‐inspired movements and religious institutions has always been a neglected area of study. In this paper, we try to fill this gap to some extent, by concentrating our interest and study on the Hindu‐inspired Sri Aurobindo Movement of Pondicherry in the Tamil country. In the course of the paper, we show how values of Islamic and Christian‐West origins have made crucial in‐roads into modern Hindu religious thought and practice. We have brought out especially the striking resemblances between the Sri Aurobindo Movement and Islam. Values like egalitarianism, brotherhood and universalism, so alien to Hindu traditions and genius and so familiar to Islam and Christianity seem to have been successfully incorporated as core values by modem variants and interpretations of Hinduism. Though our study concentrates only on Christian‐Muslim influence on the Sri Aurobindo Movement, anybody can see that it has great relevance to many modern Hindu and Hindu‐inspir...

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