•  Indian philosophical systems have no practical relevance to contemporary problems of life,

•  They have no effect on the practical life and affairs of the modern men and women.

•  Some Indian Philosophical systems even deny 'Ultimate Reality,' to the Universe, in which we live and have our being.'

• According to some western thinkers they have no " No consumer value." (H.H.PRICE.)

• That modern Indian thinkers like Ramakrishna, Vivekanada, Gandhiji, Tagore, Aurobindo, Vinobhaji, Radhakrishnan and J.Krishna Murthy, are merely a rehash of the old Vedanta, they made no advance on the traditional Thought. 

REACTIONS TO WESTERN CRITICS: 

EXTREME ORTHOX Reaction: They refuse to contaminate with the western methods. They attempt to maintain and preserve the pristine purity of Indian Philosophical ideas. In the process they have petrified them. THE ULTRA MODERN Reaction: These are fascinated/ infatuated with the western ideals. As a result they are thoroughly uprooted from the past and were completely absorbed and hypnotised by the western modes of life and patterns of thought.  

THE RESENTMENT THINKERS: These constitute a creative minority. They accept the west but are prepared to assimilate the best out of it. They were shaken by the west but not shattered. The typical example is Mahathma Gandhiji. His attitude sums up this middle position. Thus on the western influence he said, " I do not want my house to be walled n all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be swept off my feet by any."  As Nehru said, " Change is essential but continuity is also necessary. The future has to be built on the foundations laid in the past as well as in the present. To deny the past and break with it completely is to uproot ourselves and become hapless. It was the virtue of Gandhiji to keep his feet firmly planted n the rich tradition of our race and our soil and at the same time to function on a revolutionary plane.

In the words of Sri Aurobindho " All that we do to create must be consistent with the abiding spirit of India, but framed in to a greater harmonised harmonise rhythm and elastic to the call of a luminous future… There cannot be a healthy and victorious survival if we make of the past a fetish instead of an inspiring impulse."  

In the words of Dr Radha krishnan, the Indian thinkers "…have carried the fire and the glow and not the ashes," and exhibited " a remarkable positive tolerance in actively incorporating all that is best in the world." Some of the prominent Orientalists are: MAXMULLER, JACOBI, VENIS, LANMAN, WARREN WOODS, HUME, STCHERBATSKY, PUSSIN, TUCCI, EDGERTON MR AND MRS RHYS DAVIDS.WHITNEY, DEUSSEN, KEITH ETC. They have carried on the work of editing, collating, and translating almost all-Hindu scripture and made them available to all.

ANSWERS TO THE WESTERN CRITICS:
The dominent trends of the contemporary Indian philosophy are (a) They are centered upon a search of the wide areas of agreement between the different systems of the east and the west. They entertainan integral view and sound for a sound sysnthesis and assimilation and not exclusion.