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• Author(s): Wendy Doniger • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Hinduism - History"Don't miss this equivalent of a brilliant graduate course froma feisty and exhilarating teacher." -The Washington Post An engro...

• Author(s): Anonymous • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Hinduism - Sacred WritingsRecorded in sacred Sanskrit texts, including the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, Hindu Myths are thought to date back as far as ...

• Author(s): Sondra L. Hausner • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIn this moving ethnographic portrait of Hindu renouncers--sadhus or ascetics--in north...

• Author(s): Anonymous • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: HinduThe Bhagavad Gita is an early epic poem that recounts the conversation between Arjuna the warrior and his charioteer Krishna, the manifestation of ...

• Author(s): E. Allen Richardson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Hinduism - General In India, Hindu images have been cast for millennia through the lost wax process and brought to life by...

• Author(s): Anonymous • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: HinduThe Laws of Manu form a towering work of Hindu philosophy. Composed by many Brahmin priests, this is an extraordinary, encyclopaedic representation...

• Author(s): Anonymous | F. Max Muller • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: Hinduism - TheologyA part of the "Vedas", a collection of ancient manuscripts which form the basis for the Hindu religion, the "Upanisha...

• Author(s): Anonymous • Publisher: Signet Book • Publisher Imprint: Signet Book • BISAC: Hinduism - Sacred Writings The Wisdom of the Hindu Mystics The principal texts selected and translated from the original Sanskrit, Upanishad means "sittin...

• Author(s): E. Allen Richardson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Hinduism - General The Hindu sect the Vallabha Sampradaya was founded in India in the 15th century by a devotional saint, ...

• Author(s): Anonymous • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Hinduism - GeneralThe earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive in any Indo-Eur...

• Author(s): Anonymous • Publisher: Signet Book • Publisher Imprint: Signet Book • BISAC: Hinduism - Sacred WritingsThe timeless epic of the Hindu faith, now available from Signet Classics in this edition translated by Swami Prabhavananda and Chr...

• Author(s): Narayan | R. K. • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: LiteraryTwo comic gems from the father of modern Indian fiction- available in one volume for the first time These two novels show R. K. Narayan a...

• Author(s): Robert Heine-Geldern • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaA study of "the ideological foundations" of the monarchical governments of S...

• Author(s): Anonymous • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Ancient & Classical A new selection from the national epic of India Originally composed in Sanskrit sometime between 400 BC and 400 AD, The Mahabha...

• Author(s): Alexi Kukuljevic • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945- )An examination of the disoriented subject of modernity: a dissolute figure who makes an makes an object of its absence; fr...

• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Reference Over the course of 80 years television has produced countless programs, many of which fit a particular ...

• Author(s): Sanjay Patel • Publisher: Plume Books • Publisher Imprint: Plume Books • BISAC: Hinduism - GeneralPixar animator and Academy Award-nominated director Sanjay Patel (Sanjay's Super Team) brings to life Hinduism's most important gods an...