The Keys of Power: A Study of Indian Ritual and Belief

The Keys of Power: A Study of Indian Ritual and Belief
ISBN-10
1000390047
ISBN-13
9781000390049
Category
Social Science
Pages
574
Language
English
Published
2021-12-20
Publisher
Routledge
Author
J. Abbott

Description

This book, first published in 1932, demonstrates how the control of certain ‘-isms’ has for long moulded the interpretation of Indian belief and ritual by Western writers particularly. In every chapter there is some new coordination, often iconoclastic of then-accepted theory, whilst the new wealth of customs carefully recorded is astonishing. Long disputed problems such as that of the Maratha ‘devak’, or that of the ceremonial sowing of seedlings known to Western scholars as the ‘gardens of Adonis’, have at last been settled through careful research.

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