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Ramkrishna Bhattacharya
Materialism in India, very much like materialism in Greece, has to be
reconstructed on the basis of fragments. Although the materialist
tradition can be traced back to the Upaniṣads on the one hand, and the Buddhist and Jain canonical works on the
other, the fragments offer only a glimpse of materialist thought. The same is
true of the Presocratic philosophical tradition in Greece. Yet the glimpses we
have from other, non-philosophical works are no...
