Abstract
It is a truism that Bimal Krishna Matilal (1935–1991) was the twentieth century's leading exponent of Indian logic and epistemology while also being an analytical visionary on the role of philosophy in classical Indian society. What is less known is that Bimal Matilal, a one‐time occupier of the Spalding Chair in Eastern Religion and Ethics at All Souls College, University of Oxford, also held strong views on topics within the philosophy of religion, which he understood to be the proper philosophical and rational study of Indian religions. This study would not be merely confined to the three cradle traditions, namely Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, but also involve the other religions that continue to have a significant presence in the subcontinent, namely, Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and certain tribal or aboriginal religions. This entry explores Matilal's iconoclastic ideas on a possible Indian philosophy of religion.
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