Author: Alain Danielou
Title: Hindu Polytheism
Description: London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1964. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of Alain Daniélou's fascinating study of Hinduism, complete with original pictorial dustwrapper. In the publisher's orange cloth binding with green and gilt spine label and pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated throughout with thirty two numbered plates and frontispiece. Alain Daniélou was a French historian, intellectual, musicologist, Indologist, and a noted western convert to and expert of Shaivite Hinduism. Daniélou was the author of over thirty books on Indian music and culture. He received several awards for his work on music and was also a photographer and painter. He studied Indian classical music in Varanasi with Shivendranath Basu and played the veena. He also translated some of the works of Swami Karpatri by whom he was initiated into Shaivism under the name Shiva Sharan (Protected by Shiva). He is perhaps best remembered for his important work on classical Indian music. In the publisher's cloth binding with dustwrapper. Externally lovely. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. The dust wrapper is excellent, with very slight wear to extremities and handling marks. Fine . Ill.: Various. Fine/Near Fine.
Keywords: Daniélou First Edition Dustwrapper India First Edition Hinduism Polytheism Various
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Title: Hindu Polytheism
Description: London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1964. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of Alain Daniélou's fascinating study of Hinduism, complete with original pictorial dustwrapper. In the publisher's orange cloth binding with green and gilt spine label and pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated throughout with thirty two numbered plates and frontispiece. Alain Daniélou was a French historian, intellectual, musicologist, Indologist, and a noted western convert to and expert of Shaivite Hinduism. Daniélou was the author of over thirty books on Indian music and culture. He received several awards for his work on music and was also a photographer and painter. He studied Indian classical music in Varanasi with Shivendranath Basu and played the veena. He also translated some of the works of Swami Karpatri by whom he was initiated into Shaivism under the name Shiva Sharan (Protected by Shiva). He is perhaps best remembered for his important work on classical Indian music. In the publisher's cloth binding with dustwrapper. Externally lovely. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. The dust wrapper is excellent, with very slight wear to extremities and handling marks. Fine . Ill.: Various. Fine/Near Fine.
Keywords: Daniélou First Edition Dustwrapper India First Edition Hinduism Polytheism Various
Price: GBP 39.99 = appr. US$ 57.11 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: GEN10-B-1
- Book number: GEN10-B-1
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