Reviewer: Ramakrishna Puligandla, Emeritus professor of Philosophy, University of Toledo

Rajiv Malhotra richly deserves to be congratulated for making available his masterly work, Being Different: Indian Challenge to Western Universalism. With analytical clarity and systematic argumentation, grounded in documentation from the original sources, Rajiv Malhotra at once offers excellent clarification of the Dharma-traditions and thorough and unsurpassed responses to the West. This work commands an amazingly wide scholarship across Indian civilization, Western civilization, and comparative philosophy and religion. All people interested in the ongoing debate on science, religion, and civilizations will find this work most illuminating and beneficial. I know of no work on this subject which even remotely matches this.