Akshaya Mukul

Broschiertes Buch

Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India

Beschreibung

In the early 1920s, Jaydayal Goyandka and Hanuman Prasad Poddar, two Marwari businessmen-turned-spiritualists, set up the Gita Press and Kalyan magazine. As of early 2014, Gita Press had sold close to 72 million copies of the Gita, 70 million copies of Tulsidas's works and 19 million copies of scriptures like the Puranas and Upanishads. And whil...

Autor

Akshaya Mukul is an independent researcher and a Homi Bhabha Fellow. Journalist for over two decades, he has contributed to A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English (2005) edited by Prem Poddar and David Johnson, Edinburgh University Press. He lives in Gurgaon with wife Jyoti, daughter Jahnavi and Dalmatian Bella.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers India Pvt Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 552
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 689g
• ISBN-13: 9789352645206
• ISBN-10: 9352645200
• Artikelnr.: 68910022