Drawing on ethnographic research spanning ten years, Antoinette Elizabeth DeNapoli offers a new perspective on the practice of asceticism in India today. Her work brings to light the little known and often marginalized lives of female Hindu ascetics (sadhus) in the North Indian …
"Kingship and Polity on the Himalayan Borderland" explores the modern transformation of state and society in the Indian Himalaya. Centred on three Rajput led-kingdoms during the transition to British rule (c. 1790-1840) and their interconnected histories, it demonstrates how bor…
"Kingship and Polity on the Himalayan Borderland" explores the modern transformation of state and society in the Indian Himalaya. Centred on three Rajput led-kingdoms during the transition to British rule (c. 1790-1840) and their interconnected histories, it demonstrates how bor…
Tantra song: Tantric painting from Rajasthan
A collection of rare, abstract Tantra drawings. These contemporary, anonymous drawings from Rajasthan are unlike the more familiar strands of Tantric art - the geometric yantras, or erotic illustrations of the Kama Sutra. The drawings are designed to awaken heightened states of …
Covers the period, 500 B.C. to post-1947 period.
