Forgotten Friends: Monks, Marriages, and Memories of Northeast India

by Indrani Chatterjee

This book traces the changing and long-term history of the vast Brahmaputra valley region, that has distinct languages, faiths, monastic traditions, and lay-monk relationship, in different orders and gender and household relations. It examines the political and economic order of Buddhist, Vaisnava, Saiva, Tantric, and Sufi teachers and their disciples, students, and adherents in the northeast India. In the course of the nineteenth century, war, changes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198089228
• ISBN13: 9780198089223
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.9" x 8.7"