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Making a Mantra Tantric Ritual and Renunciation on the Jain Path to Liberation
ISBN: PB: 9780226767062, ISBN: HB: 9780226766904, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones
Jainism originated in India and shares some features with Buddhism and Hinduism, but it is a distinct tradition with its own key texts, art, rituals, beliefs, and history. One important way in which it has often been distinguished from Buddhism and H...
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£24,00
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£76,00
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Chandrabati's Ramayan
ISBN: HB: 9789385932946, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2020
120 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Chandrabati, the first woman poet in Bangla, lived in the sixteenth century in Mymensingh district in present day Bangladesh. She was also the first poet in the Bangla language to present a retelling of the Ram story from the point of view of Sita. I...
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£16,00
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Logic in a Popular Form Essays on Popular Religion in Bengal
ISBN: PB: 9780857426161, Seagull Books, September 2019
256 pp., 24.1x16 cm
Taking its title from Karl Marx's description of religion as the world's "logic in a popular form", this book explores the hidden logic behind popular religions in nineteenth-century Bengal. Sumanta Banerjee examines cross-religious cults and the con...
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£25,00
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Malevolent Republic India Under Modi
ISBN: HB: 9781787380059, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! After decades of imperfect secularism, New Delhi radiates the ideological convictions of its new master, Narendra Modi, as he seeks irreversibly to transform India. The "invisible threads" holding together Nehru's diverse count...
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£20,00
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Majoritarian State How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India
ISBN: HB: 9781787381476, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
472 pp., 21.6x13.4 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Majoritarian State" traces the ascendance of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India. Led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP administration has established an ethno-religious and populist style of rule since 2014. Its ag...
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£45,00
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Why I Am a Hindu
ISBN: HB: 9781849049894, Hurst Publishers, June 2018
312 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Hinduism is one of the world's oldest and greatest religious traditions. In captivating prose, Shashi Tharoor untangles its origins, its key philosophical concepts and texts. He explores everyday Hindu beliefs and practices, fr...
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£20,00
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Keshab Bengal's Forgotten Prophet
ISBN: HB: 9781849049016, Hurst Publishers, April 2018
312 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Keshab Chandra Sen (1838-1884) was one of the most powerful and controversial figures in nineteenth-century Bengal. A religious leader and social reformer, his universalist interpretation of Hinduism found mass appeal in India,...
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Against Dharma Dissent in the Ancient Indian Sciences of Sex and Politics
ISBN: HB: 9780300216196, Yale University Press, March 2018
248 pp., 21x14 cm
Ancient Hindu texts speak of the three aims of human life: dharma,artha, and kama. Translated, these might be called religion, politics, and pleasure, and each is held to be an essential requirement of a full life. Balance among the three is a goal n...
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£20,00
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Little History of Religion
ISBN: PB: 9780300228816, Yale University Press, August 2017
256 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 40 black&white illus.
For curious readers young and old, a rich and colorful history of religion from humanity's earliest days to our own contentious times In an era of hardening religious attitudes and explosive religious violence, this book offers a welcome antidote. Ri...
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£9,99
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Hindu Tantric World An Overview
ISBN: PB: 9780226424095, ISBN: HB: 9780226423937, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings
Tantra occupies a unique position in Western understandings of Hindu spirituality. Its carnal dimension has made its name instantly recognizable, but this popular fascination with sex has obscured its philosophical depth and ritual practices, to say...
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£22,50
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£72,00
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