Amartya Sen is a self-proclaimed atheist and holds that this can be associated with Hinduism as a political entity.[43][44][45][46] In an interview for the magazine California, which is published by the University of California, Berkeley, he noted:[47] “ In some ways people had got used to the idea that India was spiritual and religion-oriented. That gave a leg up to the religious interpretation of India, despite the fact that Sanskrit had a larger atheistic literature than what exists in any other classical language. Madhava Acharya, the remarkable 14th century philosopher, wrote this rather great book called Sarvadarshansamgraha, which discussed all the religious schools of thought within the Hindu structure. The first chapter is "Atheism" – a very strong presentation of the argument in favor of atheism and materialism.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amartya_Sen
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