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Kalighat is said to be the oldest and most potent Hindu pilgrimage site in the city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). It is home to the dark goddess Kali in her ferocious form and attracts thousands of worshipers a day, many sacrificing goats at her feet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887620305Author Swami B.Format HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Mandala Publishing GroupPublisher Mandala Publishing Group

In Hindutva as Political Monotheism, Anustup Basu offers a genealogical study of Hindutva—Hindu right-wing nationalism—to illustrate the significance of Western anthropology and political theory to the idea of India as a Hindu nation. Connecting Nazi...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781981799145Author M K GandhiFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647229160Author Mandakranta BoseFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

This is an annotated translation of an award-winning 1895 Marathi novel entitled The Subhedar's Son by the Rev. Dinkar Shankar Sawarkar. The novel provides a blueprint of what a Brahminical journey towards Christian conversion encompassed. The novel's...

Hinduism is the world's third largest religion and still growing. It is the oldest major religion with a tradition reaching back millennia and having many notable peaks and periods of glory. It has influenced and been affected by other world religions,...

What role do pre-modern religious traditions play in the formation of modern secular identities? In Unforgetting Chaitanya, Varuni Bhatia examines late-nineteenth-century transformations of Vaishnavism-a vibrant and multifaceted religious tradition...