About the Book: Principles Of Tantra Part 1 and 2
The present work is a defence of the Tantra, of which Sastra the author is an
adherent and a polemic, undertaken in the interests of Hindu orthodoxy in its
Sakta and Tantrika form against secularism on the one hand, and on the other the
religious eclecticism and various reforming movements, of which, when the book
was first written, the Brahmasamaj was a leading type. In fact, in parts the
book reads like an orthodox Catholic protest against modernism and is thus
interesting as showing how many fundamental principles are common to all orthdox
forms of belief,