Fazal Sheikh: Moksha

by Fazal Sheikh

For 500 years the holy city of Vrindavan in northern India has been a haven for India's dispossessed widows. Cast out by their families and condemned by strict marital laws that deny them legal, economic, and, in extreme cases, even human rights, they have made their way to the city to worship at its temples and live in its ashrams, surviving on charitable handouts or begging on the streets. In Vrindavan they worship the young god Krishna, who invades...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3865211259
• ISBN13: 9783865211255
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Steidl
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 8.9" x 10.6"