Hinduism

Hinduism is practised by nearly eighty per cent of India's population, and by some seventy million people outside India. In this Very Short Introdu...

Philology and Criticism contrasts the Mahbhratas preservation and transmission within the Indian scribal and commentarial traditions with Sanskrit ...

Since the earliest encounters between tantric traditions and Western scholars of religion, tantra has posed a challenge. The representation of tant...

This book analyzes the contemporary global revival of Nondual aivism, a thousand-year-old medieval Hindu religious philosophy. Providing a historic...

Erotic passion, rebellion, spiritual thirst, and a strong hint of early feminism, these are what make Mirabais songs irrepressible five centuries a...

This book assesses the impact of European colonization in the late 19th and early 20th century in restructuring the shared past of India and Southe...

Guru: The Universal Teacher is a compilation of articles written by Swami B. P. Puri on the topic of the spiritual master. It is a handbook for tho...

This book explores the relationship between Gandhi and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)a right-wing Indian organisation and discusses their re...

This book presents an account of the concept of mind in Hindu Tantra through a study of religious and philosophical texts in the medieval period.Of...