{"title":"Featured Hinduism Books","description":"\u003cp\u003eA curated selection of in-stock Hinduism books from across India Club’s collection, including works on Hindu traditions, philosophy, saints, mythology, rituals, and religious life.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"17486-hindu-india","title":"Hindu India","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Devdutt Pattanaik\u003cbr\u003eEditor(s): Shalini Saran \/ Anand Naorem\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Brijbasi\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2003\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 96\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8187902078\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHinduism’s faces are several: to some it is a philosophy of life; others associate it with the Vedas, sacrifices and worship of icons; yet others acknowledge Bhagawan as the supreme lord of all beings. In India itself over 700 million people are Hindus: orthodox, reformist, philosophically inclined or a combination of all. Hinduism, as a religion, has evolved continuously since 2500 BC.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHindu India unfolds the complexities of Hinduism with the starting point that everything in the universe is a manifestation of the Divine: even so-called evil forces emanate from and assimilate with the Divine, and only exist for a cosmic balance. The Divine is the omnipresent principle and bhakti, unconditional submission to the Divine, is often translated into traditions and ritualistic practices. Sometimes there is the danger of the latter overtaking the purity of actual worship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the raison d’etre of this book. It introduces the religion to the reader-its esoteric beliefs, practices, the Hindu concept of the cosmos, and the Hindu aim of life. And all this flows in a story-like narrative with simple explanations, answers to oft asked questions and nuggets of explanatory definitions. 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We wander the length and breadth of India in search of westerners who have forsaken their old lives in the West for totally new, dramatically more meaningful ones in the East. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy seeing Indian spirituality through the eyes of outsiders who were not born into the ancient culture, but found tremendous personal meaning therein, we discover it new and fresh with each individual Tillis interviews. All have discovered an enormous spiritual wealth in India that makes the material prosperity and technological advancements of the West seem desolate and primitive in comparison.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmong the people interviewed: Vijayananda, Ani Tenzin Palmo (Diana Perry), Swami Jnanananda, Bill Aitken, Atmananda, Lucia Osborne, Father Bede Griffith.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Malcolm Tillis \/ Indica Books \/ Paperback","offer_id":40776415707305,"sku":"17591","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/1048\/4393\/products\/17591_a3e3bd12-64df-4212-97a2-cb70a28cee12.jpg?v=1625525862"},{"product_id":"18800-social-and-religious-reform-the-hindus-of-british-india","title":"Social and Religious Reform - The Hindus of British India","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Amiya P Sen\u003cbr\u003eEditor(s): Amiya P Sen\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2005\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 226\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 0195677021\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the Indian context, the use of the term reform to indicate changes in religious belief or social practices dates to the nineteenth century, coinciding with the consolidation of British power and the advent of so-called modernity. Social and religious reform in colonial India has often been written about without an effort to highlight the wide-ranging debates that have affected it. The present volume is thus the first work to focus on reform as a disputed concept. It retraces some of the critical contestations around the phenomenon of reform as it affected the largest community of British India-the Hindus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe essays in this volume, the fourth in the Debates in Indian History and Society series, identify major issues within the history of socio-religious reform among Hindus that grew into passionate public debates. Amiya P Sen’s insightful introduction engages with the key components of these debates, for example, the choice of issue or the pace at which reform was to be carried out. The issues themselves are primarily presented through contemporary writings and speeches now rarely obtainable. The volume includes extracts by such well-known personalities as Swami Vivekananda, Lajpat Rai, Bankim Chandra, Raja Rammohan Roy, K T Telang, Aurobindo Ghosh, Rabindranath Tagore, M G Ranade,, Mahatma Gandhi, and B R Ambedkar among many others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA valuable entry point to understanding the present day social problems faced by the Hindu community, this volume will be a useful supplementary text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of modern Indian history, sociology, and religious studies. 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Today the growth of nuclear families and the changing pace of life have led to these tales and traditions being forgotten or only partially recollected.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is an attempt at collating the legends of the various avataras or births of Lord Vishnu and presenting them in an easily readable form for Indians in India and abroad, as well as others with an interest in Indian religions, culture and philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePROLOGUE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMatsya Avatara - The Divine Fish\u003cbr\u003eKurma Avatara - The Divine Tortoise\u003cbr\u003eVaraha Avatara - The Divine Boar\u003cbr\u003eNarasimha Avatara - The Divine Man-Loin\u003cbr\u003eVamana Avatara - The Divine Dwarf\u003cbr\u003eParasurama Avatara\u003cbr\u003eRama Avatara\u003cbr\u003eKrishna Avatara \u003cbr\u003eBuddha Avatara - Puranic Legends of the Buddha\u003cbr\u003eKalki Avatara\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEPILOGUE\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"V Ashok \/ Rupa \/ Paperback","offer_id":40776748761257,"sku":"8975","price":17.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/1048\/4393\/products\/8975_f6f18ad8-58a8-427b-939a-844554666e18.jpg?v=1625521873"},{"product_id":"9483-the-ramayana-of-valmiki","title":"The Ramayana of Valmiki","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Makhan Lal Sen\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Munshiram Manoharlal\u003cbr\u003eYear: 1997\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 611\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8121500931\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is a modernized version in English prose of the great Sanskrit epic Ramayana.  Here the translator has done his best to capture to a remarkable degree the grandeur of the epic, the loftiness of its thought, the simplicity and elegance of its diction and the freshness of its enduring beauty.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is a modernized version in English prose of the great Sanskrit epic Ramayana. The appeal and freshness of epic poems transcend all limitations imposed by time, space, age, caste, creed, society and language.  All, irrespective of their age, succumb to the charms and fascinating personalities of its heroes, who have inspired countless men of different generations and spurred them on to perform almost superhuman task.  Modern civilization owes most of dazzling achievements to such inspiration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eValmiki's Ramayana is something more than an epic.  No one has built shrines in honor of Homer's heroes, to worship them as God.  In contrast, from the time of its composition to this day, Valmiki's hero never lacked devotees.  The reason for this strange phenomenon lies in this: in the Greek epics the cause is ambition, and the effect is the valor of its heroes; in Ramayana the cause is the moral welfare of society and the effect is the ideal conduct  of its heroes under the most trying circumstances that destiny can weave.  Rama is a personification of all that is expected of an ideal son, ideal brother, ideal husband, ideal prince, ideal ally, ideal commander and an ideal king.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslation of epics and rendering them in prose, is , at the best of times, an hazardous and arduous job. Here the translator has done his best to capture to a remarkable degree the grandeur of the epic, the loftiness of its thought, the simplicity and elegance of its diction and the freshness of its enduring beauty.  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