The Hare Krishnas in India

This entertaining and sensitive book deepens our knowledge by paths of those Western Hare Krishnas who eventually to or lived in India. The charismatic leader of the sect, the Indian monk Swami Bhaktivedanta, aimed to save Westerners from what he saw as materialism and atheism and atheism by converting them to worship the Hindu god Krishna. Have the Western Hare Krishnas really become part of Indian culture ? Can it be that Indian accept these foreigners as essentially Hindu and even Brahman ? Brooks answers in a way that radically challenges our accepted images of Indian social dynamics.