Way of Life: King, Householder, Renouncer : Essays in Honour of Louis Dumont

The present Volume brings together essays dealing with an important aspect of the ideological foundation of Indic civilisations, namely the notion of the good life or 'Purusartha' Contributed by 17 scholars from Britain, France, Holland, India and the USA. They deal specifically with the Brahmanical ideologies of Kingship householdership and renunciation.