Books by Andrew Nicholson
Training the Cross Country Horse
by Kate Green, Andrew Nicholson
A refreshing approach to the art of cross country riding with New Zealander Andrew Nicholson, one of the world's most talented and experienced eventers. Every dedicated horse trials spectator has experienced that extraordinary feeling of deja vu when watching the cross country phase of the competition, as Andrew flashes past again and again on a selection of different horses! His stickability, stamina and knack for getting in tune with a huge variety of horses are legendary, and many of his best results are thanks to his consistent ability to complete the cross country phase clear and within the time allowed. In his typically down-to-earth manner he reveals how he starts his young horse across country. He describes his ideal sort of horse and how he gets them fit for the job. Kit Houghton's lavish action photographs show Andrew tackling the full range of cross country obstacles, and are accompanied by clear colour diagrams with Andrew's descriptions as to what is going right (or wrong!) in each case.
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Unifying Hinduism: Philosophy and Identity in Indian Intellectual History (South Asia Across the Disciplines)
Some postcolonial theorists argue that the idea of a single system of belief known as "Hinduism" is a creation of nineteenth-century British imperialists. Andrew J. Nicholson introduces another perspective: although a unified Hindu identity is not as ancient as some Hindus claim, it has its roots in innovations within South Asian philosophy from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. During this time, thinkers treated the philosophies of Vedanta, Samkhya, and Yoga, along with the worshippers of Visnu, Siva, and Sakti, as belonging to a single system of belief and practice. Instead of seeing such groups as separate and contradictory, they re-envisioned them as separate rivers leading to the ocean of Brahman, the ultimate reality.
Drawing on the writings of philosophers from late medieval and early modern traditions, including Vijnanabhiksu, Madhava, and Madhusudana Sarasvati, Nicholson shows how influential thinkers portrayed Vedanta philosophy as the ultimate unifier of diverse belief systems. This project paved the way for the work of later Hindu reformers, such as Vivekananda, Radhakrishnan, and Gandhi, whose teachings promoted the notion that all world religions belong to a single spiritual unity. In his study, Nicholson also critiques the way in which Eurocentric concepts—like monism and dualism, idealism and realism, theism and atheism, and orthodoxy and heterodoxy—have come to dominate modern discourses on Indian philosophy.
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