The first book to offer a detailed framework, a fine-grained history, and an analytically nuanced understanding of one of the rarest branches of Hindu worship.
Lokesh Ohri is an anthropologist and activist who has worked for several years in the Himalaya. He was a doctoral fellow at the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany, and has worked on political rituals, heritage, and resource use in the mountains. He is currently working on an extensive documentation of the river Ganges from source to mouth.