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Hinduism
Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men
An Annotated Critical Selection from The Untouchables B. R. Ambedkar
B. R. Ambedkar spent his life battling Untouchability and instigating the end of the caste system. In his 1948 book The Untouchables, he sought to trace the origin of Untouchability. Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men is an annotated selection from this work, produced in a time when the oppression of and discrimination against Dalits remains pervasive.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19585-0 $90.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19584-3 2020 256 pages A Genealogy of Devotion
Bhakti, Tantra, Yoga, and Sufism in North India Patton E. Burchett
Patton E. Burchett offers a path-breaking genealogical study of devotional (bhakti) Hinduism that traces its understudied historical relationships with tantra, yoga, and Sufism. He focuses his analysis on the early modern period, when the rise of bhakti communities in North India transformed the religious landscape.
$70.00 / £58.00 cloth 978-0-231-19032-9 2019 456 pages
A Śabda Reader
Language in Classical Indian Thought Translated and edited by Johannes Bronkhorst
The first reader on language in—and the language of—classical Indian philosophy, A Śabda Reader offers a comprehensive and pedagogically valuable treatment of this topic. Johannes Bronkhorst brings together newly translated passages by authors from a variety of traditions—Brahmin, Buddhist, Jaina—representing a number of schools of thought.
$95.00 / £78.00 cloth 978-0-231-18940-8 2019 376 pages
HISTORICAL SOURCEBOOKS IN CLASSICAL INDIAN THOUGHT
The Temple Road Towards a Great India
Birla Mandirs as a Strategy for Reconstructing Nation and Tradition Marta Kudelska, Dorota Kamińska-Jones, Agnieszka Staszczyk, and Agata Świerzowska This book presents research on the temples founded by the Birla family in northern and central India. It examines the whole of the Birlas’ sacral foundations, both their importance in the context of national art and their function in the social or political discourse on identity in pre-independence India.
$65.00 paper 978-83-233-4646-3 2020 608 pages 89 illus.
