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...