Words of Destiny

Words of DestinyInvestigates the professional practices of astrologers in urban India and their popularity among the educated middle and upper classes. Astrologers play an important role in Indian society, but there are very few studies on their social identity and professional practices. Based on extensive fieldwork carried out in the city of Banaras, Words of Destiny shows how the Brahmanical scholarly tradition of astral sciences (jyotistra) described in Sanskrit

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