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Leela: an exhibition on the Ramayana tradition,

Leela: an exhibition on the Ramayana tradition,


ISBN: 9789391045425, 9391045421

The exhibition Leela conceptualized and curated by Molly Kausal, and designed by Neeraj Sahai presents the Ramayana not just as a tale of Shri Ramachandra, the son of King Dasharatha, nor is it an exhibition of art history presenting the Ramayana theme in evolutionary terms in different art forms.

Temples of the Indus: studies in the Hindu architecture of ancient Pakistan

Temples of the Indus: studies in the Hindu architecture of ancient Pakistan

Meister, Michael W.

ISBN: 9789394852471, 9394852476

In Pakistan's northwest, a sequence of temples built between the sixth and the tenth centuries provides a missing chapter in the evolution of the Hindu temple in South Asia. Combining some elements from Buddhist architecture in Gandhara with the symbolically powerful curvilinear Nagara tower formulated in the early post-Gupta period, this group stands as an independent school of that pan-Indic ...

Savarkar, Part 2: a contested legacy, 1924-1966

Savarkar, Part 2: a contested legacy, 1924-1966

Sampath, Vikram

ISBN: 9780670090310, 067009031X

Decades after his death, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar continues to uniquely influence India's political scenario. An optimistic advocate of Hindu-Muslim unity in his treatise on the 1857 War of Independence, what was it that transformed him into a proponent of `Hindutva'? A former president of the All-India Hindu Mahasabha, Savarkar was a severe critic of the Congress's appeasement politics. After ...

Visible histories, disappearing women: producing Muslim womanhood in late colonial Bengal

Visible histories, disappearing women: producing Muslim womanhood in late colonial Bengal

Sarkar, Mahua

ISBN: 9788189884437, 8189884433

The author examines how Muslim women in colonial Bengal came to be more marginalized in nationalist discourse than their Hindu counterparts. She considers how their near-invisibility, except as victims, underpins the construction of the ideal citizen-subject in late colonial India.

Vishnu Purana,

Vishnu Purana,


ISBN: 9780143456865, 0143456865

The Vishnu Purana is part of a series of eighteen sacred Hindu texts known collectively as the Puranas. It occupies a prominent position among the ancient Vaishnava Puranas which recount tales of creation and the many incarnations of Lord Vishnu. It describes the four classes of society, the four stages of life and the key astronomical concepts related to Hinduism. Brimming with insight and tol...

Nonviolence to animals, earth, and self in Asian traditions

Nonviolence to animals, earth, and self in Asian traditions

Chapple, Christopher Key

ISBN: 9788170304265, 8170304261

Probes the origins of the practice of non-violence in early India and traces its path within the Jaina, Hindu and Buddhist traditions.;

Numbers: their iconographic consideration in Buddhist and Hindu practices

Numbers: their iconographic consideration in Buddhist and Hindu practices

Bunce, Fredrick W (b.1935)

ISBN: 9788124602010, 8124602018

The author perceives 'numerology' not as the arcane or occult science, but as an academic proposition concerned with the ethos of numbers and the genesis of their importance within the Hindu and Buddhist art, particularly architecture.

Women in print cultures of 19th century Punjab, Susila Tahl Ram's Cosmopolitan Hinduani, the full novel with an introd. by Arti Minocha

Women in print cultures of 19th century Punjab, Susila Tahl Ram's Cosmopolitan Hinduani, the full novel with an introd. by Arti Minocha


ISBN: 9788195020409, 8195020402

The printing press and rising levels of education brought major changes to society all over the world. A good amount of writing and publishing happened in 19th century colonial India too. As the debate about women's role in society grew a number of women authors emerged especially in the western and southern parts of the country.

Odisha: an architectural odyssey

Odisha: an architectural odyssey

Ray, S.S. et al.

ISBN: 9789385936036, 9385936034

The architecture of Odisha is rich, varied and emblematic of its history and culture. In this first of its kind compilation, Dr. S. S. Ray and Dr. Kajri Misra capture the diversity and variety, in a comprehensive timeline perspective of architectural evolution of the state. In this painstakingly documented and engagingly narrated book, the authors and their research team systematically profile ...

Old wisdom and new horizon

Old wisdom and new horizon

Pal, Manoj Kumar

ISBN: 9788130910086, 813091008X

Series: ... Civilization, Vol.XV part 5 / gen. ed.: D.P. Chattopadhyaya.;;The book reviews the wisdom of the ancient Hindus, Buddhism, Jainism and of the three semitic religions--Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It presents a concise account of the Indian Vedas, Vedangas, Saddarsana, the two epics and the Bhagavadgita, of the philosophy and science of the Greeks, science and technology of ancie...

Om: the sound symbol

Om: the sound symbol

Saraswati, Swamini Atmaprajnananda

ISBN: 9788121512596, 812151259X

The book is on the various meanings of Om, as unfolded by Swami Dayananda Saraswati. The first part contains linguistic interpretation while the second deal with the origin in the Vedic literature.

On Hinduism: reviews and reflections, foreword by David Frawley

On Hinduism: reviews and reflections, foreword by David Frawley

Ram Swarup (1920-1998)

ISBN: 9788185990620, 818599062X

There are two major groups of religions in the world today. First are the conversion-based monotheistic creeds of Christianity and Islam. Second are the pluralistic dharmic traditions of India, of which Hinduism is the oldest and the largest. Chinese Taoism and Japanese Shinto have an affinity with dharmic traditions. So also the indigenous religious traditions of pre-Christian Europeans, pre-I...

One religion too many: the religiously comparative reflections of a comparatively religious Hindu

One religion too many: the religiously comparative reflections of a comparatively religious Hindu

Sharma, Arvind

ISBN: 9789381406113, 9381406111

This book is a Hindu pilgrim's progress through the world's religious traditions. An eminent scholar of comparative religion, Arvind Sharma provides a firsthand account of how he came to be a party to the dialogue of religions - first with his own religion, then with the comparative study of religion, and finally with the religious universalism he has come to espouse because of this heritage.

One religion too many: the religiously comparative reflections of a comparatively religious Hindu

One religion too many: the religiously comparative reflections of a comparatively religious Hindu

Sharma, Arvind

This book is a Hindu pilgrim's progress through the world's religious traditions. An eminent scholar of comparative religion, Arvind Sharma provides a firsthand account of how he came to be a party to the dialogue of religions - first with his own religion, then with the comparative study of religion, and finally with the religious universalism he has come to espouse because of this heritage.

The origins of yoga and tantra: Indic religions to the thirteenth century

The origins of yoga and tantra: Indic religions to the thirteenth century

Samuel, Geoffrey

ISBN: 9781107678972, 1107678978

This book is an interpretation of the history of Indic religions up to around 1200 CE, with particular focus on the development of yogic and tantric traditions.

Our heritage

Our heritage

Raghavan, RV

This volume contains pictures of the Murthis in some of the important temples in India. This will help the devotee to understand Hinduism.

Our merciful mother Ganga

Our merciful mother Ganga

Dasa, Jaya Vijaya

ISBN: 9788190113205, 8190113208

The first part contains narrations about Sri Gangadevi from the Puranas and about her exalted nature and glories. The second lists her transcendental pastimes from Gomukha, high in the Himalayas, to Ganga-sagara, where she meets the Bay of Bengal.

Outlines of the proto-historic chronology of Western Asia: with some historic chronology of ancient India appended to it

Outlines of the proto-historic chronology of Western Asia: with some historic chronology of ancient India appended to it

Pillai, Kesari Balakrishna

ISBN: 9788186397961, 8186397965

The book is an impartial study of ancient myths and legends of various parts of our Nation directing to some historical findings. The main system of chronology upon which this work is based is Brahma-Kalpa or Manvantara Cycle mentioned and described in the Puranas and Sidhanta works of the Hindus.

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