Sökresultat för: William R. Pinch
Peasants and Monks in British India (Övrig)
avWilliam R. Pinch
ISBN: 9780520200616 - UTGIVEN: 1996-06-11In this compelling social history, William R. Pinch tackles one of the most important but most neglected fields of the colonial history of India: the relation between monasticism and caste. The highly original inquiry yields rich insights into the central structure and dynamics of Hindu society - in[...]
Warrior Ascetics and Indian Empires (Häftad)
avWilliam R. Pinch
ISBN: 9781107406377 - UTGIVEN: 2012-08Many people assume, largely because of Gandhi's legacy, that Hinduism is a religion of non-violence. In this 2006 book William R. Pinch shows just how wrong this assumption is. Using the life of Anupgiri Gosain, a Hindu ascetic who lived at the end of the eighteenth century, he demonstrates that Hin[...]
