Hinduism category: 1323 books
Ivan Sergeevich Gagarin
The Search for Orthodox and Catholic Union
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2002
Ivan Sergeevich Gagarin analyzes questions of nationality and religious identity in nineteenth-century Russian history as reflected in the life of Jesuit priest Ivan Gagarin. A descendent of one of Russia's most ancient and politically powerful families, Father Ivan Gagarin, S.J. (1814-1882) dedicated...
Thinking with the Yoga Sutra of Patañjali
Translation and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
This book presents contemporary scholarship on the Yoga Sūtra. It revisits Patañjali’s philosophy by bringing it into dialogue with contemporary concerns across a variety of topics and perspectives. Questions regarding the role of the body in the practice of classical yoga, the debate between...
by Srinivasa Prasad Pillutla
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Mahabharata is history of India, an epic war that ended one era and ushered in the current era. It is a story of what is Dharma, what is right or wrong. Characters of all shades of human psychology and emotions appear in this book. It is a case study of all types of personalities and situations. This...
by James Grant Duff
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
The power of India reached its pre-British Raj height under the Maratha Empire or the Maratha Confederacy which was an Indian imperial power that existed from 1674 to 1818. At its peak, the empire covered much of India, encompassing a territory of over 2.8 million km². The Marathas are credited for...
A Hindu Education
Early Years of the Banaras Hindu University
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2005
This book provides a comprehensive account of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU), India's first residential university and the result of Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya's efforts to establish a Hindu university in the country. This book not only discusses the origins and development of the BHU, but also...
Mystical Science and Practical Religion
Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh Discourse on Science and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Mystical Science and Practical Religion examines the religious discourse employed by Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh applied science professionals and students, mainly engineers and Information Technology (IT) workers. Although applied scientists, especially immigrants to the United States, have shown high...
Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia
Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500–1800
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
In the past two decades, scholars have transformed our understanding of the interactions between India and the West since the consolidation of British power on the subcontinent around 1800. While acknowledging the merits of this scholarship, Sheldon Pollock argues that knowing how colonialism changed...
The Saffron Book
Many Splendoured Hindutva
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Hindutva is the only binder which can galvanize the Indian nation towards progress and prosperity. In essence, nationalism is synergy. The effort of four Indians should yield the result equivalent to five or six of them. Most Christians and Muslims of India have a Hindu ancestry. Their collective...
History of Kas'mira (Kashmir)
Aryans, Naga’s, Evolution, Rulers, Religious Beliefs/ Worship and Goddesses of Kas’mira (Kashmir)
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
This book on Kashmir titled History of Kas\\'mira (Kashmir) is his ten years research and writing effort, which covers many facets of Kas\\'mira (Kashmir) Aryans, Naga\\'s, Evolution, Rulers from Ancient times, Religious Beliefs/Worship, Religious Era\\'s, Aberrations in Kalhan\\'s Rajatarangiri and...
Some Trouble with Cows
Making Sense of Social Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 1994
Fascinating in its combination of personal stories and analytical insights, Some Trouble with Cows will help students of conflict understand how a seemingly irrational and archaic riot becomes a means for renegotiating the distribution of power and rights in a small community.
Using first-person...
by K.C. Yadav
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 1998
There are some questions in history which carry a touch of permanence about them. The partition of india,1947, is arguably one such arguably one such question.A lot of debate has been going on various issues connected with it like,for instance,as to who did it ? How?
Unforgetting Chaitanya
Vaishnavism and Cultures of Devotion in Colonial Bengal
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
What role do pre-modern religious traditions play in the formation of modern secular identities? In Unforgetting Chaitanya, Varuni Bhatia examines late-nineteenth-century transformations of Bengali Vaishnavism-a vibrant and multifaceted religious tradition that traces its origins to the fifteenth...
by Ajai Kumar Chhawchharia
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
In this book we shall read the story of Lord Ram’s marriage with Sita as narrated in “Janki Mangal”.
Here, Goswami Tulsidas describes the full story of Lord Ram’s wedding ceremony in his unique and famed style consisting of melodious verses that are his hallmark, and which make the...
by Michael Beloved
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
This is an information archive of the books authored by Michael Beloved on the subjects of yoga and meditation, reincarnation, astral projection, supernatural/spiritual perception, Krishna’s and Patanjali’s teachings.