El. knyga: Head and Heart: Valour and Self-Sacrifice in the Art of India [Taylor & Francis e-book]

An extensive study of self-sacrificial images in Indian art, this book examines concepts such as head-offering, human sacrifice, blood, suicide, valour, self-immolation, and self-giving in the context of religion and politics to explore why these images were produced and how they became paradigms of heroism.