Sadhus of India A Study of Hindu Asceticism

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pp. xii + [i] + 471 Based on field research conducted in North India from 1969-73, socio-cultural anthropologist Robert Lewis Gross provides a richly detailed ethnographic ac [more]

pp. xii + [i] + 471 Based on field research conducted in North India from 1969-73, socio-cultural anthropologist Robert Lewis Gross provides a richly detailed ethnographic account of India's colorful and charismatic holymen, or sadhus as they are referred to in South Asia. Through an examination of their cosmology, sacred symbolism, ritual practices, and varied interrelationships with the Hindu laity, Dr. Gross attempts to understand the persistence of ancient traditions of asceticism and world renunciation in modem Indian social and religious life. It appears that renunciation and the formation of ascetic sects.[less]