1st 2022 144pp Utkrānti Press 4to hardback. Illustrated in black & white throughout. Near fine in near fine dustwrapper.
 
Ltd. ed. 399/500, signed by author on rear page. Against the Grain is a visual presentation on reality and myth, on material culture and much more. The traditions depicted herein, embedded in complex webs of cults and languages and enacted through the medium of ritual practices, are deeply rooted in science and spirituality. The ritual dimensions, born out of devotional attitudes towards a diverse host of deities, forces of nature, asceticism, life and death, society and its rejection, forms the core of this book. Prema Goet is an ex-worker and multi-disciplinary researcher whose main interest lies in the intellectual history, culture and languages of South Asia.