How the Brahmins Won

How the Brahmins Won
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 590
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ISBN-10 : 9789004315518
ISBN-13 : 9004315519
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Book Synopsis How the Brahmins Won by : Johannes Bronkhorst

Download or read book How the Brahmins Won written by Johannes Bronkhorst and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study to systematically confront the question how Brahmanism, which was geographically limited and under threat during the final centuries BCE, transformed itself and spread all over South and Southeast Asia.


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