An in-depth photographic study of the ascetic holy men of India • Includes more than 100 striking color photographs of Sadhus, their extreme austerities, and

Liberated from earthly concerns and living beyond the limits of space and time, these mystics form a vital and unbroken link between the birth of yoga millenia

Robert Lewis Gross Provides A Richly Detailed Ethnographic Account Of India`S Colourful And Charismatic Holymen, Or Sadhus As They Are Referred To In South Asia

The first insider account of an ancient and secretive tradition • By the first foreigner to become a member, and later an elder, of the Juna Akhara, the oldes

Sadhus of India is a scholarly study of the mendicant sadhus (Hindu ascetics) of Uttar Pradesh, India, with the goal of evaluating the role and status of sadhus