The Dance Of Shiva (Fourteen Indian Essays)  (Paperback, Ananda Coomaraswamy)

The purpose of Coomaraswamy\'s book is to show the power of this soul, to show the riches that it holds stored up, with which to ennoble and render happy to the human race. In a series of Essays, which are apparently detached, but all of which spring from the same central thought and converge into one design, the vast and tranquil metaphysics of India is unfolded; her conception of the universe, her social organisation, perfect in its day and still capable of adaption to the demand of modern times; the solution which she offers for the feminist problem, for the problems of the family, of love, of marriage; and lastly, the magnificient revelation of her art. The whole vast soul of India proclaims from end to end of its crowded and well- ordered edifice the same domination of a sovereign synthesis. Topics Are Coverd in this Book As - 1. What has India Contributed to Human 2. Welfare Hindu View of Art 3. History of Aesthetic 4. Theory of Beauty 5. The Beauty is a state 6. Buddhist Primitives 7. Indian Images with Many Arms 8. Indian Music 9. Status of Indian Women 10. Sahaja 11. Intellectual Ferternity 12. Cosmopolitian View of Nietzsche 13. Young India Individuality, Autonomy and Function