In this extraordinarily candid book, Umesh Patri presents a fresh reappraisal of the impact of Indian scriptures on American transcendentalism which flourished

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An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth that offers a new way of understanding one of the world's oldest major religions, The Hindus

The first major study since the 1930s of the relationship between American Transcendentalism and Asian religions, and the first comprehensive work to include po

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