Indica Books
The Ganga Trail Foreign Accounts and Sketches of the River Scene
Varanasi Vista Early Views of the Holy City
Banaras in the Early 19th Century
Abhinavagupta’s Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita (HB)
Benares Seen from Within
A Pilgrimage to Kashi (Colour comic book)
A Pilgrimage to Kashi (Colour comic book) (HB)
Selected Writings of M.M. Gopinath Kaviraj
Gopinath Kaviraj (1887-1976) does not need presentation in the world of modern Indian philosophy and thought. He was for many years librarian in the Sanskrit College, Varanasi. He later became Principal of the Sanskrit College until 1937, when he voluntarily retired to devote himself to research and sadhana. He was conferred the titles of Mahamahopadhyaya in 1934 and of Padmavibhusana in 1964.
108 Discourses of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati Shankaracharya of Jyotirmath (1941-1953) (Hindi and English)
We are fortunate in that many of Swami Brahmananda's 'Upadesha' (discourses or sermons) were transcribed, and published in the ashram newsletter of 'Shri Shankaracharya Upadesha'. Now these most important words of Shankaracharya Swami Brahmanand Saraswati are being made available in this special edition, both in their original Hindi and in English, with translation done by Paul Mason.
Swami R. Vaidyanathan (Remaji): A Man with a Message to Humanity
History and Time An Indian Perspective
The Goddess and The Slave The Fakir, the Mother and Maldevelopment
Drawing upon the rich inter-connected levels of meaning within the Fakir culture, especially with respect to the living, breathing paradigmatic Mother--as Nature, as the Goddess to be worshipped and as the mother whose service is her identity--The Goddess and the Slave demonstrates the crisis faced by the unique Baul-Fakir sadhana, by the non-urban Bengali, and by Indian society itself through the major changes brought by modernization and globalization.
Rudrani Fakir, as an anthropologist and as a practitioner, uses the Fakir sadhana as a critical tool of understanding, presenting this objective study through her highly engaged subjective perspectrive. The first part of this book outlines the Fakir society and esoteric sadhana. The second part delves into the decline and decay of the reality of the Goddess, the changing status of women and of the true nature of wealth, and draws together the threads of the old knowledge paradigms--esoteric and modern, spoken and wordless, powerless and empowered.