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Gazing Eastwards Of Buddhist Monks and Revolutionaries in China, 1957
ISBN: HB: 9780857428165, Seagull Books, March 2021
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 12 halftones
In 1957, renowned Indian historian Romila Thapar visited China, where, together with Sri Lankan art historian Anil de Silva, she worked at two cave sites that were the locations of Buddhist monasteries and shrines from the first millennium CE. The fi...
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£20,00
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Logic in a Popular Form Essays on Popular Religion in Bengal
ISBN: PB: 9780857426161, Seagull Books, September 2019
256 pp., 24.1x16 cm
Taking its title from Karl Marx's description of religion as the world's "logic in a popular form", this book explores the hidden logic behind popular religions in nineteenth-century Bengal. Sumanta Banerjee examines cross-religious cults and the con...
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£25,00
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Isha Upanishad
ISBN: HB: 9780857421821, Seagull Books, February 2014
116 pp., 22.2x22.2 cm
That is full. This is full. From the full comes the full. Remove the full from the full and what remains? The full. This first line of the Isha Upanishad, one of the most powerful ancient books of faith, is so profound that Mahatma Gandhi famously...
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£34,00
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Eternal Performance Taziyah and Other Shiite Rituals
ISBN: HB: 9781906497514, Seagull Books, January 2010
364 pp., 24.1x16.8 cm, 90 halftones
Over the centuries, observances of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, have traveled far from their origins at Karbala – a windswept desert plain that is now a town in present-day Iraq – where, according to tradition, Hussein, the belo...
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£26,50
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Offence: The Hindu Case
ISBN: HB: 9781906497385, Seagull Books, November 2009
102 pp., 18.3x11.4 cm, 6 halftones
To many outside India, Hinduism is envisioned as the foundation of an ideal, all-embracing society. Yet this is far from the truth. Though historically the practice of Hinduism does promote the idea of an inclusive and tolerant way of life, in the pa...
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£15,00
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Offence: The Christian Case
ISBN: HB: 9781906497040, Seagull Books, March 2009
112 pp., 18.3x11.4 cm
During the cold-war years, Western Christians basked in a sense that they were living on the right side of the ideological divide, harboring humane values, freedom, democracy and the right to irrationality, belief and non-belief. The atheist Communis...
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£15,00
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Offence: The Muslim Case
ISBN: HB: 9781906497033, Seagull Books, March 2009
112 pp., 18.3x11.4 cm
In recent years, countless politicians and commentators have been addressing the Quran in an attempt to understand the rise of Muslim extremist ideology. They have missed the point: the most significant factor in this phenomenon is to be found within...
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Amritsar Voices from Between India and Pakistan
ISBN: PB: 9781905422333, ISBN: HB: 9781905422326, Seagull Books, December 2006
264 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm
The city of Amritsar stands on the volatile border between India and Pakistan. It has been a focus for political and religious conflict since the partition of 1947. "Amritsar" brings together 25 first-hand accounts of life in a city at the epicentre...
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£24,00
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£79,00
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Jinnah Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity
ISBN: PB: 9781905422098, ISBN: HB: 9781905422081, Seagull Books, November 2005
275 pp., 21x13.8 cm
This book analyses the development of Jinnah's relationship with India's Muslims from his entry into politics until 1934. It shows that a dominant view of Jinnah – that he was an ambassador of Hindu Muslim unity in the 1920s who became a communalist...
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£79,00
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