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A Popular Dictionary of Hinduism
A multi-purpose reference work which should become an indispensable companion for anybody who comes into touch with Hinduism. Includes a dictionary of Sanskrit and vernacular… read more1997 | Paperback: 978-0-7007-1049-2 (Routledge)
Paradigms of Indian Architecture
Space and Time in Representation and Design
This book explores conceptions of Indian architecture and how the historical buildings of the subcontinent have been conceived and described. Investigating the design philosophies of… read more1997 | Paperback: 978-0-7007-1038-6 (Routledge)
Ancient Rights and Future Comfort
Bihar, the Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885, and British Rule in India
This book analyses the character of British rule in nineteenth-century India, by focusing on the underlying ideas and the practical repercussions of agrarian policy. It… read more1997 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-0625-9 (Routledge)
Organising Women's Protest
A Study of Political Styles in Two South Indian Activist Groups
This study examines the nature of two women's activist groups in Madras and their activities since 1979, focusing on their work with the media, slum… read more1996 | Paperback: 978-0-7007-0440-8 (Routledge)
Poor Relations
The Making of a Eurasian Community in British India, 1773-1833
The sixty years between 1773 and 1833 determined British paramountcy in India. Those years were formative too for British Eurasians. By the 1820s Eurasians were… read more1996 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-0425-5 (Routledge)
Myth and Mythmaking
Continuous Evolution in Indian Tradition
Essays focusing on some of the ways in which myths have been made, and made to function, in the rich cultural history of India from… read more1996 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-0303-6 (Routledge)
Krsna's Round Dance Reconsidered
Hariram Vyas's Hindi Ras-pancadhyayi
Concerned with the process in Hinduism of reinterpreting classical texts and imbuing them with new inspiration. An example par excellence is Hariram Vyas's Ras-pancadhyayi, the… read more1996 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-0426-2 (Routledge)
A Guru Nanak Glossary
1995 | Hardback: 978-0-7286-0243-4 (Routledge)
A Place for Our Gods
The Construction of an Edinburgh Hindu Temple Community
Study of some 150 Hindu families (and about 1000 persons) living in Edinburgh, and particularly about the fact that two associations exist among them, one… read more1995 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-0356-2 (Routledge)
Karma and Rebirth
The Karmic Law of Cause and Effect
Karma, the law of cause and effect, of nature's retribution for lost harmony, and Rebirth, from which it is inseperable, have been described as the… read more1995 | Paperback: 978-0-7007-0163-6 (Routledge)
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