Download or read book The Hindus written by Wendy Doniger and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An 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. The Hindus brings a fascinating multiplicity of actors and stories to the stage to show how brilliant and creative thinkers have kept Hinduism alive in ways that other scholars have not fully explored. In this unique and authoritative account, debates about Hindu traditions become platforms to consider history as a whole.

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Download or read book India Before Europe written by Catherine B. Asher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-16 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first survey of the political, economic, religious and cultural landscapes of medieval India.

Download or read book The People of India written by Herbert Risley and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1999 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable volume written by the director of Ethnology in India, Herbert Risley. It gives a very full and scholarly account concerning the people of India. Chapter one classifies the people according to their physical types; chapter 2 classifies them according to the social types; chapter three is a very amusing section of the proverbs and popular saying of the people about themselves. Chapter four concerns the rituals of caste and marriage; Chapter 5 is on caste and religion, chapter 6 discuss the origins of caste, and chapter 7 notices caste and nationality. At the end are 7 appendices that give information on proverbs, maps of caste, anthropometric data, infant marriage laws, modern theories of caste, Kulin polygamy and the santhal and munda tribes. The book has 35 illustrations. This book is a reprint of the 1915 edition.

Download or read book Society and Culture in Northern India 1850 1900 written by Shiva Swarupa Dua and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia Commercial Industrial and Scientific written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 1262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Indian Missionary Manual Or Hints to Young Missionaries in India written by Murdoch and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sexuality Obscenity and Community written by C. Gupta and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through analysis of an impressive array of 'low' and 'high' Hindu literatures, particularly pamphlets, tracts, newspapers, and archival data, Gupta explores the emerging discourse of gender and sexuality, which was essential to the development of notions of Hindu communitality and nationalism in the colonial period. The book offers an exceptionally nuanced account of Hindi gender politics.

Download or read book Indian Literature Art and Religion written by Probsthain & Co and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Indian Missionary Manual Or Hints to Young Misionaries in India With Lists of Books written by John Murdoch and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Hindu Manners Customs and Ceremonies written by Abbe J.A. Dubois and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. This work is an impressive eye-witness account of life in India at the tum of the century. It combines descriptions of the Hindu religion and Hindu sociology with masterful portraits of the intimate lives of the people among whom the author lived. Many important issues are explored, including the caste system, poverty, the mythical origin of the Brahmins, Hindu sects, ceremonies, religious fasting, morality, the position of women, and Hindu literature.

Download or read book Hindu Manners Customs and Ceremonies written by Jean Antoine Dubois and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 30 years the author, a French missionary, lived among the Hindus, adopting their dress and customs and studying their social and religious institutions. The English government found this account of the results of his observations valuable enough to translate and publish it for the use of officials and oriental students.