Dharma : Survey of Indian Cultural Religion and Spirituality Seen Through Brahmanic Eyes by Uma Marina Vesci is an in depth study of the development of Vedic religion and spirituality in the sub-continent. The author has attempted to condense into a nutshell all the poignant features of a cultural world so dispersed in thousands or millions of rivulets that it can seldom be grasped in its totality. To this end the author has attempted with the purpose of still widening a possible field of eventual comparisons, say with other religions or spiritualities has managed to compare the principles of Vedic religion with other contemporary thought of the time up to the present day. Throughout the book the author has attempted to bring into perspective the cultural and religious lifestyles of a people that is still carried on even today in varying forms. They are those forms of culture and spiritualities that have grown together with the people responsible for them. They normally deal with the ‘histories’, socio-political, ritual behaviour of their own ‘tribes’ within the boundaries of a given, generally small, society and establish or regulate their relationship within themselves and with a superior power. The number of these religions, or if preferred of local spiritualities, is virtually beyond counting since they range from earliest pre-history of mankind down to the ethnological populations still alive today.
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