Presented to the author by the staff of the Oriental Institute, Utrecht University, on the occasion of his 70th birthday. — Leiden : Brill, 1975. — X, 540 p. — ISBN: 90-04-04228-8 and 90-04-04233-4. Contents: The Concept of a personal God in ancient Indian religious thought. The Hindu Trinity. Viṣṇu’s name Aniruddha . A note on Indra in Purāṇic literature. Śiva in...
University of Chicago Press, 2016. — 296 p. The Kamasutra is best known in the West for its scandalous celebration of unbridled sensuality. Yet, there is much, much more to it; embedded in the text is a vision of the city founded on art and aesthetic pleasure. In Foucault and the "Kamasutra" , Sanjay K. Gautam lays out the nature and origin of this iconic Indian text and...
University of Washington Press, 2019. — 312 p. In the early 2000s, as India was emerging as a global superpower, a key development project off the southern Indian coast was thwarted by intense opposition. The construction of a new shipping canal angered Hindu nationalists who sought to protect what they saw as the land bridge built by Hanuman and his monkey army in the Indian...
Routledge, 2019. — 423 p. — (Routledge Library Editions: Hinduism). — ISBN10: 036714901X, 13 978-0367149017. Indian art, increasingly popular in the west, cannot be fully appreciated without some knowledge of the religious and philosophical background. This book, first published in 1985, covers all aspects of Hindu iconography, and explains that its roots lie far back in the...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 320 p. For scholars of ancient Indian religions, the wandering mendicants who left home and family for a celibate life and the search for liberation represent an enigma. The Vedic religion, centered on the married household, had no place for such a figure. Much has been written about the Indian ascetic but hardly any scholarly attention has been...
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press. 1892. — 433 p. Introduction to the Grihya-Sutras. Gobhila Grihya-Sutra. Hiranyakesi Grihya-Sutra. Apastamba Grihya-Sutra. Apastamba Yagna-Paribhasha-Sutras Transliteration of Oriental Alphabets adopted for the Translations of the Sacred Books of the East.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. — 320 p. This volume examines the multifarious dimensions that constitute the workings of the Hindu temple as an architectural and urban built form. Eleven chapters reflect on Hindu temples from multiple standpoints tracing their elusive evolution from wayside shrines as well as canonization into classical objects; questioning the role of...
University of California Press, 2019. — 216 p. Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance centers on an insular community of Smarta Brahmin men from the Kuchipudi village in Telugu-speaking South India who are required to don stri-vesam (woman’s guise) and impersonate female characters from Hindu religious narratives. Impersonation is not simply a...
University of California Press, 2018. — 312 p. The Hegemony of Heritage makes an original and significant contribution to our understanding of how the relationship of architectural objects and societies to the built environment changes over time. Studying two surviving medieval monuments in southern Rajasthan - the Ambika Temple in Jagat and the Ékalingji Temple Complex in...
Routledge, 2016. — 344 p. The Sanskrit Mahabharata (which contains the Bhagavad Gita) is sorely neglected as a classic - perhaps the classic - of world literature, and is of particularly timely human importance in today's globalised and war-torn world. This book is a chronological survey of the Sanskrit Mahabharata's central royal patriline - a family tree that is also a list...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. — 640 p. As David White explains in the Introduction to Tantra in Practice, Tantra is an Asian body of beliefs and practices that seeks to channel the divine energy that grounds the universe, in creative and liberating ways. The subsequent chapters reflect the wide geographical and temporal scope of Tantra by examining thirty-six...
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003 — 372 p. For those who wonder what relation actual Tantric practices bear to the "Tantric sex" currently being marketed so successfully in the West, David Gordon White has a simple answer: there is none. Sweeping away centuries of misunderstandings and misrepresentations, White returns to original texts, images, and ritual...
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009 — 352 p. Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old-aged. But our modern conception of yoga derives much from nineteenth-century European spirituality, and the true story of yoga’s origins in South Asia is far richer, stranger, and more...
Pustak Mahal, 2010. — 296 p. Dictionary of Indology presents the history of Indian Scriptures, Languages, Literature and Humanities in all the forms, colours and dimensions; not graphically but alphabetically; from the most primitive time to the recent past; through detailed description of and references to, almost all the books available and the authors known in both Vedic and...
Rupa Publications, 2012. — 192 p. Written in the early twentieth century, "The Dance of Shiva" was a remarkable book for its time. It discussed in depth the unique nature of the Indian ethos, understood by so few in the Western world and misinterpreted by so many. A collection of fourteen lectures, these essays on Indian art and culture offer a lucid representation of the...
World Wisdom, 2011. — 180 p. Ananda Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) was one of the most famous scholars of Indian art, culture, and religion. He served for many years as the Keeper of Indian and Islamic Art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, establishing one of the most impressive collections of oriental artifacts in the world. He introduced the essence of ancient Indian art and its...
Princeton University Press, 1972. — 282 p. — (Edited by Joseph Campbell). A landmark work that demystifies the rich tradition of Indian art, "Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization" analyzes key motifs found in legend, myth, and folklore taken directly from the Sanskrit. It provides a comprehensive introduction to visual thinking and picture reading in Indian art and...
Princeton University Press, 1972. — 282 p. — (Edited by Joseph Campbell). A landmark work that demystifies the rich tradition of Indian art, "Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization" analyzes key motifs found in legend, myth, and folklore taken directly from the Sanskrit. It provides a comprehensive introduction to visual thinking and picture reading in Indian art and...
Princeton University Press, 1972. — 282 p. — (Edited by Joseph Campbell). A landmark work that demystifies the rich tradition of Indian art, "Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization" analyzes key motifs found in legend, myth, and folklore taken directly from the Sanskrit. It provides a comprehensive introduction to visual thinking and picture reading in Indian art and...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. — 432 p. "The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art" provides an extensive research resource to the burgeoning field of Asian aesthetics. Featuring leading international scholars and teachers whose work defines the field, this unique volume reflects the very best scholarship in creative, analytic, and comparative...