Sudhir Kakar, a psychoanalyst and scholar, brilliantly illuminates the ancient healing traditions of India embodied in the rituals of shamans, the teachings of gurus, and the precepts of the school of medicine known as Ayurveda. "With extraordinary sympathy, open-mindedness, and insight Sudhir Kakar[...]

With India's independence movement in disarray and with the country wracked by factionalism and unrest, Mahatma Gandhi withdraws from society to an ashram, but his quest for peace and enlightenment is interrupted by the arrival of Madeline Slade, the daughter of a British admiral, who aims to become[...]