ePub History; Philosophy; Culture: Revisiting Professor G.C. Pande's Thoughts and Works by Sibesh Bhattacharya in History

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If any movement of the West was deeply influenced by the philosophy and wisdom of India it was American Transcendentalism of the nineteenth century.It emerged as a strong reactionary movement;braving the currents of British Empiricism;Scientific Naturalism and Dialectical materialism of Europe.American Transcendentalism believed in commitment to the Truth rather than in religious dogma and theology.The eclectic American Transcendalists;led by Emerson;Thoreau;and Whitman;turned to Indian and Greek philosophy;Sufism;Confucianism;Taoism and Buddhism for inspiration in their mission to stem the influence of the materialistic culture of Europe on an emerging American Society.Thoreau;hoever;surpassed the others in his enthusiasm for Vedic literature.