An Indian Village Through Letters and Pictures

Dr. D. Kantowsky, born in Berlin in 1936, retired as Professor of Sociology from the University of Konstanz (Germany) in 1999. He pursued post-graduate studies at Banaras Hindu University from 1964 to 1967 and spent more than a year in a village of Varanasi District. He has maintained close research contacts with the region ever since, and is founder-editor (1990) of a series of publications on ‘Buddhist Modernism’ especially in the West. His other English publications inlucde Sarvodaya. The Other Development (1980), Recent Research on Max Weber’s Studies of Hinduism (1986), An Indian Village through Letters and Pictures (1995).