Mohammad Ali Jinnah: a hero or a villain?

Sharma, SR

The book discusses the rise of Jinnah as a distinguished Muslim leader, his differences with Congress and Mahatma Gandhi on the creation of Pakistan. The author conclude that partition of India will prove good for Hindus and they should be thankful to Jinnah for creating Pakistan and saving them the untold miseries and suffering.

Monk, householder, and tantric priest: Newar Buddhism and its hierarchy of ritual

Gellner, David N

ISBN: 9788185618135, 8185618135

Contents: (i) Caste and religous affiliation (ii) The relation of Hinduism and Buddhism (iii) Basic notions of Newar Buddhism (iv) Basic rituals of Newar Buddhism (v) The disciples way (vi) The great way (vii) The great way (Part II): guthis (viii) The diamond way (ix) The diamond way: the regular cult (x) The uses of tantra (xi) Social and religious hierarchies.

The scar,

Gunasekaran, K.A.

ISBN: 9789354426810, 9354426816

Growing up as a boy from the Parayar caste, in the milieu of Christian, Hindu and Muslim communities, K.A. Gunasekaran narrates the familiar tale of caste oppression and prejudice prevalent in the villages of Tamil Nadu. As the narrative unfolds, the reader is shown how the `low' caste negotiates differently with the three religious communities. The deep pain of the Paraya surfaces through the ...

Mudras in Buddhist and Hindu practices: an iconographic consideration

Bunce, Fredrick W

ISBN: 9788124603123, 812460312X

This book is a dictionary of mudras in Hindi and Buddhist religious practices that lists the various mudras-- deity-centred, rite-centred, yogic-centred, and so on-- illustrating each with a simple drawing drawn generally from the perspective of one holding the mudra.

Mukundamukurah: reflections of Indic light, Mukunda Madhava Sharma commemoration volume

Chakravarty, Shrutidhara ed.

This book is an anthology of research papers on different branches of Indology dedicated to the hollowed memory of late Dr. Mukunda Madhava Sharma, a renowned scholar of Indology. Articles cover: Vedic Literature, Indian Philosophy, Epics and Puranas, Poetry and Poetics, Hindu Law etc.

Muslim league attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab 1947, comp. for the SGPC by S. Gurbachan Singh Talib, introd. to the reprint by Ram Swarup

ISBN: 9789385485114, 9385485113

This volume is a reprint of an old book compiled in 1947 by Sardar Gurbachan Singh Talib, Principal of the Lyallpur Khalsa College, Jullundur, and published in 1950 by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee. It records the story of 7-million Hindus and Sikhs who were uprooted from their homes in the West Punjab, the North-Western Frontier, Sind and parts of Kashmir, and the atrocities of t...

The Mutinies and the people or statements of native fidelity: exhibited during the outbreak of 1857-58 (A Hindu), with an introd. by Ramakanta Chakrabarty

This volume is a collection of news paper cuttings on the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, with a commentary of the author.

Mystic musings in religions: selected papers from the international conference 'Mysticism without Bounds'

Kachappilly, Kurian

ISBN: 9788192512181, 8192512185

This book attempts to explore the mystical consciousness from different disciplines, like religions (Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Sufism, Taoism, etc), sciences (biology, new physics, neuroscience, and logic), humanities (philosophy, theology, spirituality, psychology, etc.), and art forms (poetry, music, dance, visual arts and rituals).

The myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva temple, 3rd rev. edn.

Sharan, Ishwar

ISBN: 9788185990910, 8185990913

Ishwar Sharan is the pen name of Canadian author Swami Devananda Saraswati, a Smarta Dasanani sannyasi who took his Vedic initiation from a renowned mahamandaleswar at Prayag in 1977. His purvasrama family were middle class professionals and God-fearing Protestant Christians. He did not complete high school and is self-educated through reading books on all subjects, with a special interest in r...

Mythology and iconography of Ganesa

Datta, Madhumita

ISBN: 9789381325193, 9381325197

The myths and gods of India: the classic work on Hindu polytheism

Danielou, Alain

ISBN: 9788120836389, 8120836383

Myths and legends in Indian art

Trivedi, S.D. et al.

ISBN: 9788173200892, 8173200890

This book covers myths and legends from the tales from Ramayana, Krishna Lila, Pauranic Legends, Buddhisht Lore, Jaina legends, tales of love and some micellaneous tales.

Myths of composite culture and equality of religions

Narain, Harsh

ISBN: 9788185990453, 818599045X

During the early phases of modern Indian renaissance, it was the Vedic-Upanisadic phase of Indian culture which was accorded the pride of place in describing and evaluating Indian culture. Later, it came to be rivalled by what the atheists and the materialists, the agnostics and the rationalists, and the humanists and the modernists combined to call anti-Vedic-Upanisadic culture fathered by Car...

Nabakalebara of lord Jagannath

Pattanayak, A.K.

ISBN: 9788173055454, 8173055459

Nabakalebara is one of the grandiloquent events associated with the Jagannath temple of Puri. It is a unique Hindu religious festival in many respects, which is beyond normal human perception.

Naga cult and wooden art in India

Kaul, PK

ISBN: 9788178541389, 8178541386

Naga cult in Orissa

Panda, Sadhu Charan

ISBN: 9789350501733, 9350501732

An inter-disciplinary study of this ancient form of serpent worship prevalent in different parts of the world, in general, and the folk cult of Nagabachcha, in particular which is a popular religious creed among the tribals and peasants of rural Orissa.

Naga in Indian iconography and art, from the earliest times to c. 13th century AD

Sharma, RK

ISBN: 9788173055157, 8173055157

Ophiolatry or serpent- worship (most commonly referred to in India as Naga cult) seems to have been one of the oldest and most widespread form of religion the world has ever known. The present book has analysed to show how the cult was associated with the different religious systemsof ancient India and how this association is reflected in the art and iconography of the respective religious syst...

art of Ajanta and Sopocani: a comparative study: an enquiry in Prana aesthetics

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Nataraja in South Indian art, foreword by Raju Kalidos

Soundararajan, J

ISBN: 9788188934058, 8188934054

The author has paid a special attention to the sources in Tamil that stand neglected by art historians. The core thesis is that Nataraja is not exclusively an epithet of Siva.

Negationism in India: concealing the record of Islam, 2nd enl. edn.

Elst, Koenraad

ISBN: 9788185990958, 8185990956

Negationism in Europe usually means the denial of the Nazi genocide on the Jews and Gypsies in World War 2. Less well-known is that India has its own brand of negationism. A section of the Indian intelligentsia is trying to erase from the Hindus' memory the history of their persecution by the swords-men of Islam. The number of victims of this persecution matches that of the Nazi crimes. The Isl...