Ramakrishna Miscellany: A Comparative Study, Studia Orientalia Monographica, Vol. 7, Narasingha P. Sil

This slender, but substantial volume brings together four of Sil’s published essays (revised here into a single monograph) on the life of the famed Bengali mystic Śrī Ramakrishna Paramahaṃsa, born Gadadhar, or, Gadai Chattopadhyay in rural Bengal in 1836. Despite a life cut short due to throat cance...

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Main Author: Landolt, Hermann 1935- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Univ. 2020
In: Nidān
Year: 2020, Volume: 5, Issue: 2, Pages: 87-89
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