About the Book :

in the nature of an introductory volume, offers a comprehensive overview of Hinduism, its beginnings, traditions, religious/sectarian movements, teachings, socio cultural parameters, and are, in sum of the whole Hindu heritage. Also included here numerous illustrations: b/w photographs and line drawings, highlighting the Hindu way of life in this diversity; ranging from mundane, everyday pre occupations of the Hindus to their creative expression in art and architecture.

About Author :

K.V. Soundara Rajan, who retired as Additional Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India, is a distinguished archaeologist and historian, and also brilliant exponent of Indian arts, culture and scriptural literature. Extensively published, he has been a visiting Professor to the Universities of Chicago, California, and Los Angeles; Visitor under the British Council to the United Kingdom; and Member of the Consultative Committee for a UNESCO project on Port Cities of the Indian Ocean region.