Oriental & Indian Philosophy

The book is a wide-ranging collection of essays on Indian classical dance, which include writings on dance appreciation, the criticism, theory and ...

The word 'yoga' conjures up in the minds of many Westerners images of people performing exercises and adopting unusual, sometimes contortive postur...

This volume explores the scope and limits of Mahatma Gandhi's moral politics and its implications for Indian and other freedom movements. It presen...

Gandhi was perhaps the most influential yet misunderstood figure of the twentieth century. Drawing close attention to his last years, this book exp...

Understanding Yoga Therapy offers a comprehensive and accessible perspective on yoga therapy as a complementary, integrative route to promoting who...

This book presents a fascinating examination of modern Indian philosophical thought from the margins. It considers the subject from two perspective...

How was the post-modernist project contested, subverted and assimilated in India? This book offers a personal account and an intellectual history o...

This book presents for the first time in English a complete translation of the Expository Commentary to the Daode jing, written by the Daoist monk ...

This book presents for the first time in English a complete translation of the Expository Commentary to the Daode jing, written by the Daoist monk ...

The nature of reality has been a long-debated issue among scientists and philosophers. In 1930, Rabindranath Tagore and Albert Einstein had a long ...

Each essay in this volume provides a cultural perspective on shame. More specifically, each chapter focuses on the question of how a culture can di...

This book is an analysis of the philosophical chapters of the Tattvrthdhigama (TA), a foundational text for the Jaina tradition and the first text ...

This is Volume VIII of sixteen in a collection on Buddhism. Originally published in 1923, this volume looks at cosmology. All forms of Buddhism, ho...

Sri Aurobindo was an Indian nationalist, philosopher, yogi, guru, and poet. This book is an enquiry into the integral philosophy of Aurobindo and i...

Traditional Chinese philosophy, if engaged at all, is often regarded as an object of antiquated curiosity and dismissed as unimportant in the curre...

This book presents an alternative view of cosmopolitanism, citizenship and modernity in early 20th-century India through the multiple lenses of mys...

The Sanskrit narrative text Dev Mhtmya, The Greatness of The Goddess, extols the triumphs of an all-powerful Goddess, Durg, over universe-imperilin...

This comprehensive volume explores histories and modern reworkings of the ideas of mind, soul and consciousness in South Asia.It focuses on the bur...

This book explores the organic lives of popular Sufi shrines in contemporary Northwest India. It traverses the worldview of shrine spaces, rituals ...