AbstractThe glorious past of Indian philosophies has a treasure of simplest but unique interpretations of all complex problems and cherishing a life, without hindering and harming each other. There were atheistic-theistic, orthodox-unorthodox, spiritual-materialistic ideologies prevailing simultaneously without any dispute or non-tolerance for each other. The increasing intolerance is pushing human in a state of annihilation. In such alarming conditions the whole world is looking for a hope of a silver lining in such dense clouds of writhing. Now it becomes the most needed area of study for educationists and philosophers of the world to study the essence of diversity of Indian ideologies and to analyse out the factors responsible for the development of such a unified glorious harmonious human society and culture. The study concludes that the ancient Indian prosperity, enriched culture, literature and flourishing society had resulted due to the impact of all ideologies prevailing in that aeon. Ideologies whether accepting God or not and accepting Vedic knowledge or not, all were paid full respect where tolerance was the unique feature of all. The study also concludes that in that period, being follower of different ideologies was not the basic concern, but all focused to reach at most important point i.e. humanity. The study suggests that our enriched ancient past should be reflected through every aspect of our institutions and should be covered through explicit and implicit curriculum of educational institutions. More debates, seminars should be organised on such topics together with presentation of these ideologies in the form of short films at the weekends and should be made available worldwide to teach the lesson of humanity through it.
Sangeeta Srivastava (Mon,) studied this question.