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{{short description|Indian scholar, writer and sociologist}} | {{short description|Indian scholar, writer and sociologist}} | ||
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'''Awadh Kishore Saran''' (1922 – 2003), popularly known as A. K. Saran, was an Indian scholar, editor, and writer who was one of the most influential voices on | '''Awadh Kishore Saran''' (1922 – 2003), popularly known as A. K. Saran, was an [[India|Indian]] scholar, editor, and writer who was one of the most influential voices on [[Traditionalist School (perennialism)|traditionalist thoughts]] in the [[Hinduism by country|Hindu world]].<ref name="WW" >{{cite web|title=A.K. Saran|url=http://www.studiesincomparativereligion.com/Public/authors/AK_Saran.aspx|website=Studies in Comparative Religion|accessdate=28 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/sociology/contextualization-of-indian-sociology/35037|title=Contextualization of Indian Sociology|date=11 April 2014|website=yourarticlelibrary.com}}</ref> | ||
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Saran's works frequently featured traditionalists and | Saran's works frequently featured traditionalists and perennialist philosophers such as [[Frithjof Schuon]] and, in particular, [[Ananda K. Coomaraswamy]], whom Saran first encountered when he was ten years old.<ref name="WW" /> He served as a professor of [[sociology]] at the [[University of Lucknow]] in [[Lucknow]], [[India]]<ref>Lardinois, Roland; Scholars and Prophets: Sociology of India from France in the 19th-20th Centuries (Social Science Press, 2013) p. 345</ref> and held the Gamaliel chair in peace and justice at the [[Cardinal Stritch University]] in [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19861011&id=iGMaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dioEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5552,2479991&hl=en|title=The Milwaukee Journal - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com|access-date=2019-06-29}}</ref> | ||
==Works== | ==Works== | ||
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* ''Takamori Lecture: The Crisis of Mankind : an Inquiry Into Originally/novelty, Power/violence (1999)'' | * ''Takamori Lecture: The Crisis of Mankind : an Inquiry Into Originally/novelty, Power/violence (1999)'' | ||
* ''The Marxian theory of social change : a logico-philosophical critique (2000)'' | * ''The Marxian theory of social change : a logico-philosophical critique (2000)'' | ||
* ''Meaning and Truth ; Lectures on the Theory of Language : A Prolegomena to the General Theory of Society and Culture (2003)'' | * ''Meaning and Truth; Lectures on the Theory of Language : A Prolegomena to the General Theory of Society and Culture (2003)'' | ||
* ''Environmental Psychology (2005)'' | * ''Environmental Psychology (2005)'' | ||
* ''On the Theories of Secularism and Modernization (Samyak-Vak Special Series, 9) (2007)'' | * ''On the Theories of Secularism and Modernization (Samyak-Vak Special Series, 9) (2007)'' | ||