Harsh Narain

Harsh Narain (23 April 1921 - 1995) is an Indian author. He has a Ph.D. from Lucknow University, and was a professor at Banaras Hindu University, Aligarh Muslim University and North Eastern Hill University.

Harsh Narain was born in 1921 in Bansdih. He wrote on Buddhism, Islam, Vedanta, Bertrand Russell, Mahatma Gandhi and Muhammad Iqbal. He wrote for the Urdu Encyclopedia, the Hindi Sahitya Kosha and the Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies. He speaks Sanskrit, Pali, Persian, Arabic, English, Hindi and Urdu.

Works

• Evolution of the Nyāya-Vaiśeşka categoriology
• The mādhyamika mind
• Facets of Indian religio-philosophic identity
• Pramāṇakārikāḥ
• Evolution of dialectic in western thought
• Jizyah and the spread of Islam
• The Ayodhya Temple Mosque Dispute: Focus on Muslim Sources. (1993)
• Myths of Composite Culture and Equality of Religions, OCLC 25834556
• Śūnyavāda: A Reinterpretation
• Finding an English Equivalent for "Guṇa"

Further reading

• Gerald J Larson, Review of Evolution of the Nyāya-Vaiśeşka categoriology, Philosophy East and West, Jul., 1978, vol. 28, no. 3, p. 383-385
• Harsh Narain : Finding an English Equivalent for "Guṇa" in Philosophy East and West,Vol. 11, No. 1/2 (Apr. - Jul., 1961), pp. 45-51