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Religious division and social conflict Religious division and social conflict Peggy Froerer Study based on Oraons, Indic people; with reference to Mohanpur, a village in Korba District, India. OL11780553W
Centres out there? Centres out there? Hermann Kulke Contributed articles presented at the fourth Salzau conference in 2003. OL16015737W
Religious transactions in colonial south India Religious transactions in colonial south India Hephzibah Israel "Religious Transactions in Colonial South India locates the "making" of Protestant identities in South India within several contesting discourses. It examines evolving attitudes to translation and tr… OL16190602W
Nine lives Nine lives William Dalrymple From the Dust Jacket: A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet-then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags i… OL16601002W
The nationalization of Hindu traditions The nationalization of Hindu traditions Vasudha Dalmia Cultural biography of Bhāratendu Hariścandra, 1850-1885, major Hindi writer of the nineteenth century. OL1759185W
Shri Sai Baba Shri Sai Baba Sāṃī Śaraṇānanda Personal experiences of a Hindu religious leader with Sri Sai Baba, 1836-1918, Indian mystic. OL1767627W
Embodiment Embodiment Meenakshi Thapan Papers presented at an international workshop held in 1994. OL18334401W
Hindu nationalism and governance Hindu nationalism and governance Ian Copland Contributed research papers on the role of Bharatiya Janata party in the governance of India and dwells on its future as India's main opposition party; previously published in South Asia of South Asi… OL18518529W
India's religions India's religions T. N. Madan Contributed articles. OL19473998W
God's other children God's other children Bradley J. Malkovsky A "spiritual travelogue that tells the tale of a Catholic religious scholar who goes to India to study Hinduism and winds up falling in love with an Indian woman and marrying into her Muslim family"-… OL19965745W
Kaleidoscope city Kaleidoscope city Piers Moore Ede I will never forget my first sight of the river in Varanasi, from the narrowness and constriction of the alleys, thronged with activity, to the sudden release of the waterfront, the labyrinth's end. … OL20000523W
Women mystics and sufi shrines in India Women mystics and sufi shrines in India Kelly Pemberton This work combines historical data with years of ethnographic fieldwork to investigate women's participation in the culture of Sufi shrines in India and the manner in which this participation both co… OL20952680W
Work, ritual, biography Work, ritual, biography Dipaka Mehta On a weaver community of Bārā Banki District, Uttar Pradesh, India. OL2607547W
Sacred Waters Sacred Waters Stephen Alter "This is an account of a journey taken in India. The destination is the source of the Ganges, the holy and most famous of Indian rivers. It is a physical journey, involving months of trekking through… OL2729549W
Images of the world Images of the world T. N. Madan xii, 398 p. ; 21 cm OL338973W
Nāga cult in Orissa Nāga cult in Orissa Sadhu Charan Panda On serpent worship in Orissa; study of images, sculptures, folklore, etc. OL4947902W
The Sacred Marriage of a Hindu Goddess The Sacred Marriage of a Hindu Goddess William P. Harman viii, 232 pages : 25 cm OL4988195W
Makers of modern Indian religion in the late Nineteenth Century Makers of modern Indian religion in the late Nineteenth Century Torkel Brekke "During the nineteenth century there took place a complete transformation of Indian religions. If we wish to understand the increasingly important political role of religion in South Asia in our time… OL5961626W
Rapt in the name Rapt in the name Ramdas Lamb "In Rapt in the Name, Ramdas Lamb provides an intriguing account of the Ram bhakti tradition in India. Less well-known in the West than the tradition of devotion to Krishna, the Ram tradition is an i… OL5962184W
The Production Of Hindu-muslim Violence In Contemporary India (Jackson School Publications in Inter… The Production Of Hindu-muslim Violence In Contemporary India (Jackson School Publications in Inter… Paul R. Brass "Chronic Hindu-Muslim rioting in India has created a situation in which communal violence is both so normal and so varied in its manifestations that it would seem to defy effective analysis. Paul R. … OL9083194W
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