Head and heart: valour and self-sacrifice in the art of India

An extensive study of self-sacrificial images in Indian art, this book examines concepts such as head-offering, human sacrifice, blood, suicide, valour, self-immolation, and self-giving in the context of religion and politics to explore why these images were produced and how they became paradigms of...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Delhi Routledge 2013
Ausgabe:1. publ.
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Zusammenfassung:An extensive study of self-sacrificial images in Indian art, this book examines concepts such as head-offering, human sacrifice, blood, suicide, valour, self-immolation, and self-giving in the context of religion and politics to explore why these images were produced and how they became paradigms of heroism
Beschreibung:LXVI, 353, [8] S. Ill.