Advaita Metaphysics

425
This book undertakes the study of Advaitavada of sankara in its depth  and extension. It spells out the relative cogency of Malkani's understanding of Advaita Metaphysics and Methodology, Murty's Critique of Advaita (nondualism) and Misra's Philosophical Construction of Advaita from a linguistic perspective. This volume centres around the formulations of the Advaita theory of monism on the basis epistemological and logical analysis of knowledge in Adhyasa Bhasya.

Advaitic Mysticism Of Sankara

700
This book attempts to elaborate and clarify Sankara's understanding of brahmannubhava, in all its aspects, relying exclusively on his own writings. For this, not only the commentaries, but also the prakarana granthas have been taken into account. In the final chapter, brahmanubhava is compared with what was said about the mystic experience by two of the most authoritative exponents of christian and Islamic mysticisms, namely st, John of the cross and Jalalu' d-Din Rumi, mainly to understand Sankara's position without any ambiguity.

Aesthetic Principles of Indian Art

295
This book provides a perceptive and extremely suggestive analysis of the Principles of Aesthetics in the Indian context. With a

Aesthetics

1,100
This work may well be expected to serve as an introduction to the study of aesthetics, suitable alike to the

Agamas in Indian Dramatics and Musicology

475
In the ancient lexicons of Vedic and classical periods, the influence of Agama has been parliamentary and pivotal. Natyaveda by

Age of The Nandas & Mauryas

695
The age of the Nandas and Mauryas (c. 400-185 B.C.) witnessed great changes sweeping over the face of Western Asia, over lands with which India had much to do from the dawn of history, and account must be taken of their effects, direct and indirect, on the political, economic and artistic life of India. In this seminal period when Indo-Aryan civilization may be said to have attained its maturity, India did not hesitate to borrow political and economic plans and artistic motifs from abroad, and put them to the most appropriate uses in her own institutions and monuments.

Ambivalent Encounters

695
Jenny Huberman provides an ethnographic study of encounters between western tourists and the children who work as unlicensed peddlers and guides along the riverfront city of Banaras, India. She examines how and why these children elicit such powerful reactions from western tourists and locals in their community as well as how the children themselves experience their work and render it meaningful.

An Annotated Bibliography of the Alamkarasastra

525
This volume contains the most comprehensive collection of scholarly sources on Indian poetics and aesthetics (the Alankarasastra) ever published in

An Introduction to the Advaita Saiva Philosophy of Kashmir (HB)

450
The author, a well-known scholar, offers in this book a unique introduction to Kashmir Saivism. The Advaita Saivas describe the

An Introduction to the Study of Indian Poetics

600
This handy volume, with its unique features, will prove invaluable to those who are going to embark on the study of Indian poetics, especially the ones who have no Sanskrit background. To a devoted student, it will prove a useful companion during his/her further studies.

Ancestral Voices

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” Ancestral Voices is an extraordinary attempt to theorise how playfull a writer represents the world through the word by