Includes bibliographical references and index.

'Religion' or 'dharma' : meaning and motivation primarily in Indian context / R.S. Bhatnagar -- Philosophy, religion, and secularism : the Indian context / Srinivasa Rao -- Dharma, its normative base and orthopraxeic frame : concept of dharma and its implications in dharmaśāstras / Godabarisha Mishra -- Semantics of dharma / V. Kutumba Sastry -- Dharma and mokṣa : conflict, continuity, and identity / Mahesh M. Mehta -- Mahatma Gandhi's notion of dharma : an explication / Pushparaj Jain -- India, Europe, and modernity / Saranindranath Tagore -- Imperial identities : the construction of Britain and India in children's literature / Kathyryn Castle -- The goals of medicine : setting new priorities : a Hindu perspective / Cromwell Crawford -- The spiritual self and psychopathology : theoretical reflections and clinical observations / Alan Roland -- Recontextualizing Indian history : a hermenutic of Saṃskr̥tikaraṇa / Shrinivas Tilak -- Secularism vs. Hindu nationalism : interrogating the terms of the debate / Makarand Pranjape -- Hindu dharma and Indian funk / K. Dad Prithipaul -- Vedic mythology : an archetypal delineation of the Hindu world-view / B. Rambilass -- Modern philosophical fragmentation versus Vedānta and Plato / Bart Gruzalski -- The dharmic journey of Svami Vivekananda : from the apostle of Hinduism universalism to Hinduism as the religion eternal / George M. Williams -- Stri dharma--wife's duties : a Hindu textual and contextual analysis among the educated and professional women in contemporary Indian society and the diaspora in UK and USA / Annapurna Devi Pandey -- Women in the East and women in the West / Ashima Khasnabish.

Contributed papers presented at an international conference held during July 16-22, 1997 in Shimla.