1964 Hindu Polytheism

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First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

In the publisher's orange cloth binding with green and gilt spine label and pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated throughout with thirty two numbered plates and frontispiece. Alain Daniélou was a French historian, intellectual, musicologist, Indologist, and a noted western convert to and expert of Shaivite Hinduism. Daniélou was the author of over thirty books on Indian music and culture. He received several awards for his work on music and was also a photographer and painter. He studied Indian classical music in Varanasi with Shivendranath Basu and played the veena. He also translated some of the works of Swami Karpatri by whom he was initiated into Shaivism under the name Shiva Sharan (Protected by Shiva). He is perhaps best remembered for his important work on classical Indian music.