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With its complex nature and many forms and offshoots, Hinduism is one of the world's most elusive religions. In Essential Hinduism, the religion's teachings, beliefs, practices, and history are reviewed by an expert hoping to rectify that. This straightfo 2nd Reprint ed. xxii+268p.

This important book explores the emergence and subsequent refinement of the idea of Hinduism as it developed among British Protestant missionaries in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The author demonstrates how the missionaries’ construction 1st ed. 376p.

Great Britain 1952. Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. Cloth with dustjacket. XI + (1) + 167 pp.

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Hinduism is based on the Veda. The concept of Gods is stated in the Veda as the one divine who takes many forms. The Puranas state that the Gods are subordinate to the one and are there to carry out the functions of creating, preserving and destroying the 1st ed. 288p.

In this remarkable book, Dr. Israel Selvanayagam, contends that the Bhagavadgita is the key for attaining an overview of “Hinduism”. The research for this thesis was based on his doctoral study of the Gita. He identifies four major strands in Hinduism as x+150p., 22cm.