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Reddit mentions of Desire and Liberation: Biography of a Text by Vaddera Chandidas
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| Release date | December 2017 |
Indian Philosophy (outside Buddhism - which is gaining some popularity), those that went to a more academic direction, seems to be relatively unrecognized. Very few seem to engage with Early Modern Indian Philosophy - philosophers like Sri Harsha and all. Prof. Jonardon Ganeri is a good source to look more into.
Other Indian Philosophers from the 1900s are relatively unknown too (relatively unknown even among relatively unknowns). Examples are, AC Mukherjee, KC Bhattacharya, Dyaya Krishna, Satchitananda. That said I don't know how well regarded they are on Indian Universities, or how well known are they, but at least I can barely find them to be talked about anywhere in the Internet. I don't even find many philosophers specializing on Indian philosophy to be talking much about them. I mostly discovered them through Jay Garfield. And these guys were actually trying to engage internationally - with texts from Western philosophers like Kant, Hegel, and talking about them in terms of Advaita Vedanta.
https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/b26076/ramchandra_gandhi_and_contemporary_indian/eirmn3h/?context=3
That said, I haven't really read all them. I have read a paper on KC Bhattacharya's work; it was interesting. But nothing much else. So I can't pick out one and say if one of them is a hidden gem and which one it is.
I am also interested in Vaddera Chandidas: https://www.amazon.com/Desire-Liberation-Biography-Vaddera-Chandidas-ebook/dp/B07FYBSWHM/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Who is quite hyped up by Raghurajmaru and also in the free sample. But I am finding the description quite vague - it kind of sound Buddhist but I am not sure what unique arguments do he make. There isn't enough details to make me confident about purchasing it, and I didn't find any reviews and such either (may be if someone here knows more about it, that would be nice). Now, if the praises by Raghurajmaru and others for Chandidas are justified, then he could be another hidden gem, or may be not.
Ultimately, almost all of Eastern philosophy is underrated by Western standard as others said.