How the Brahmins Won - From Alexander to the Guptas

This is the first study to systematically confront the question how Brahmanism, which was geographically limited and under threat during the final centuries BCE, transformed itself and spread all over South and Southeast Asia.

About the author

Johannes Bronkhorst (PhD Pune 1979, doctorate Leiden 1980) is professor emeritus at the University of Lausanne. He has published numerous research papers and books, including Greater Magadha (Brill, 2007) and Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism (Brill, 2011).

Product details

• Authors: Johannes Bronkhorst
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9789004315198
• ISBN: 978-90-04-31519-8
• No. of pages: 590
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 241 mm x 38 mm
• Weight: 957 g
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies.
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions