Chaturvedi Badrinath was an

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officer and author. His book ''The Mahabharata: An Inquiry in the Human Condition'' won the

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in 2009. He was born in Mainpuri,

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 1950 ...

in August 1933 to Jang Bahadur Chaturvedi and Lakshmi Devi. He died on 17 February 2010.

Works

* ''Unity of Life and Other Essays, Edited by Tulsi Badrinath, Oxford University Press, 2016'' * ''Swami Vivekananda: The Living Vedanta, Penguin, 2006'' * ''The Women of Mahabharata: The Question of Truth, Orient BlackSwan, 2008'' * ''The Mahabharata: An Inquiry in the Human Condition, Orient BlackSwan, 2006'' * ''Finding Jesus in Dharma: Christianity in India, 2000'' * ''Dharma, India and the World Order: Twenty-one Essays 1993''

References

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