Sacred Thread

John Brockington is Reader in the Department of Sanskrit at the University of Edinburgh

An admirable survey which comes closer than any other to providing the novice student of Indian civilisation with a reasonable view of the major facets of the Hindu religion. In ten chapters Brockington provides an excellent survey of religious developments on the subcontinent from Harappa to the Hindu reform movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, introducing the reader to the broader philosophical and cultural dimensions of the Indian tradition as well. A work that is so finely and compactly written as to merit the highest praise both for the great erudition and scholarship that emanate from every page as well as for the concentrated effort obviously required to produce it. An admirable survey which comes closer than any other to providing the novice student of Indian civilisation with a reasonable view of the major facets of the Hindu religion. In ten chapters Brockington provides an excellent survey of religious developments on the subcontinent from Harappa to the Hindu reform movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, introducing the reader to the broader philosophical and cultural dimensions of the Indian tradition as well. A work that is so finely and compactly written as to merit the highest praise both for the great erudition and scholarship that emanate from every page as well as for the concentrated effort obviously required to produce it.