The Hindu Religious Year

Muriel Underhill's survey of the Hindu religious calendar works through the major festivals and observances across the year, an early-twentieth-century scholarly account this record dates plainly rather than treating as current. Its age is the honest reason this atlas holds it at the tier for a reputable secondary source rather than the top tier: a century of subsequent scholarship and a century of change in how festivals are actually observed sit between this book and the present. Use it for established facts about a named Hindu holiday's traditional occasion and historical observance; a claim about how that festival is actually celebrated today needs a more recent source alongside it.