Wandering with Sadhus: Ascetics in the Hindu HimalayasIn this moving ethnographic portrait of Hindu renouncers sadhus or ascetics in northern India and Nepal, Sondra L. Hausner considers a paradox that shapes their lives: while ostensibly defined by their solitary spiritual practice, the stripping away of social commitments, and their break with family and community, renouncers in fact regularly interact with householder society. They form a distinctive, alternative community with its own internal