Yoga in Modern India
On the book's cover, a yogi sits in meditation | |
| Author | Joseph Alter |
|---|---|
| Subject | History of modern yoga |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Publication date | 2004 |
| Pages | 326 |
Yoga in Modern India is a 2004 book by the anthropologist Joseph Alter about the history and practice of yoga in the 20th century. It was one of the first scholarly studies of modern yoga. The book won the 2006 Association for Asian Studies' Coomaraswamy Book Prize.