Colonial and Post-Colonial Elaborations of Avataric Evolutionism
Abstract. Avataric evolutionism is the idea that ancient Hindu myths of Vishnu's ten incarnations foreshadowed Darwinian evolution. In a previous essay I examined the late nineteenth-century origins of the theory in the works of Keshub Chunder Sen and Madame Blavatsky. Here I consider two major...
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2007
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Zygon
Year: 2007, Volume: 42, Issue: 3, Pages: 715-748 |
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avataras and Darwinism
B Theosophy B Hinduism and evolution B Vedic geology B Aurobindo Ghose B British colonialism B Annie Besant B Orientalism B Narayana Bhavanrao Pavgee B avataric evolutionism B Hinduism and Darwinism |
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