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  • Banaras

    A journey into the heart of the city

    by Vertul Singh ...
    A kaleidoscopic view of Banaras, Varanasi charts a narrative that spans from the city’s present day, to its origins as Kashi, and the fin de siècle of the eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, which witnessed Varanasi’s inclusionary development as a cultural and pilgrimage centre, an opulent trading hub, and a basilica of political power. Weaving facts, interesting anecdotes and untold stories to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    An Alternative History

    by Wendy Doniger ...
    From one of the world?s foremost scholars on Hinduism, a vivid reinterpretation of its historyAn engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth that offers a new way of understanding one of the world?s oldest major religions, The Hindus elucidates the relationship between recorded history and imaginary worlds.Hinduism does not lend itself easily to a strictly chronological account ... Read more

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  • Sage Warrior

    Wake to Oneness, Practice Pleasure, Choose Courage, Become Victory

    by Valarie Kaur ...
    Series series The Revolutionary Love Project
    Profound inner wisdom for courageous action—from the author of See No Stranger and founder of the Revolutionary Love Project, a “prophetic voice of our generation” (America Ferrera)How do we find the wisdom to envision a new world and the courage to fight for it?How do we survive seemingly apocalyptic times?In a world on fire, how do we find love and joy?We are not the first to ask these questions ... Read more

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  • India

    A Sacred Geography

    by Diana L Eck ...
    In India: A Sacred Geography, renowned Harvard scholar Diana Eck offers an extraordinary spiritual journey through the pilgrimage places of the world's most religiously vibrant culture and reveals that it is, in fact, through these sacred pilgrimages that India’s very sense of nation has emerged.No matter where one goes in India, one will find a landscape in which mountains, rivers, forests, and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Nine Lives

    In Search of the Sacred in Modern India

    by William Dalrymple ...
    From the author of The Last Mughal (“A compulsively readable masterpiece” —The New York Review of Books), an exquisite, mesmerizing book that illuminates the remarkable ways in which traditional forms of religious life in India have been transformed in the vortex of the region’s rapid change—a book that distills the author’s twenty-five years of travel in India, taking us deep into ways of life ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Banaras

    CITY OF LIGHT

    by Diana L. Eck ...
    The sacred city of Banāras on the River Ganges is one of the oldest living cities in the world—as old as Jerusalem, Athens, and Peking. It is the place where Shiva, the Lord of All, is said to have made his permanent home since the dawn of creation. There are few cities in India as traditionally Hindu and as symbolic of the whole of Hindu culture as Banāras. In this eloquent, finely observed study ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Bahubali

    63 Insights into Jainism (Available in Hindi as Tirthankar)

    by Devdutt Pattanaik ...
    Many historians believe that Jainism and other hermit schools were simply a reaction to Vedic ritualism. But for most Jains, their religion has no origin: it has always been around.Jainism was rediscovered by Rishabh-dev, the first Tirthankar of this era.Rishabh's eldest son, Bharat, became Chakravarti, king of kings, and gave the country its name.Bahubali, Bharat's younger brother, renounced ... Read more

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  • The Culture of India

    by Kathleen Kuiper ...
    Series series Understanding India
    Heir to a diverse array of traditions, the Indian subcontinent boasts customs that are distinguished by a constant juxtaposition of the ancient and the modern. The omnibus culture that has resulted from a rich history reflects an accommodation of ideas from across the globe and over time. This inviting narrative examines the tapestry of major events and beliefs that imbue everyday Indian life with ... Read more

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  • Amazing Land Ladakh

    by Sanjeev Kumar Bhasin ...
    The Great Himalayas are the barriers between the Indian subcontinent and the Tibetan Plateaus, while the Karakoram range separates Ladakh from Central Asia. Ladakh was the transit point on the ancient Central Asian trade route for traders. Besides traders, this route was also exploited by invaders, travellers, and nomads, Buddhism also reached Tibet through Ladakh. The pure Aryan race is the ... Read more

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  • Sikhism

    An Introduction

    by Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh ...
    Series series I.B.Tauris Introductions to Religion
    Almost from the moment, some five centuries ago, that their religion was founded in the Punjab by Guru Nanak, Sikhs have enjoyed a distinctive identity. This sense of difference, forged during Sikhism's fierce struggles with the Mughal Empire, is still symbolised by the 'Five Ks' ('panj kakar', in Punjabi), those articles of faith to which all baptised Sikhs subscribe: uncut hair bound in a turban ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Homeland of the Buddha: A guide to the Buddhist holy places of India and Nepal

    by John Tosan McKinnon ...
    Places where the Buddha lived and taught two and a half thousand years ago are now sites of pilgrimage. Homeland of the Buddha is a book for those who have an interest in Buddhism and who aspire to visit these places. Each chapter narrates the history of that site, its significance within Buddhism, how it was discovered in modern times, and suggests how each location may be visited. Homeland ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Sikh Art and Literature

    Edited by Kerry Brown ...
    Sikh Art and Literature traverses the 500-year history of a religion that dawned with the modern age in a land that was a thoroughfare of invading armies, ideas and religions and arts of the East and West.Essays by art curators, historians and collectors and religion and literary scholars are illustrated with some of the earliest and finest Sikh paintings. Sikh modernism and mysticism is explored ... Read more

    $60.99 USD