Unifying Hinduism : philosophy and identity in Indian intellectual history /

Unifying Hinduism : philosophy and identity in Indian intellectual history /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Nicholson, Andrew J., author.
Imprint:	New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 266 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	South Asia across the disciplines South Asia across the disciplines.
Subject:	Hinduism -- History. Hinduism. Intellectual life. India -- Intellectual life. India. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11233586

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ISBN:	9780231526425 0231526423 9780231149860 0231149867 1282872419 9781282872417 9786612872419 6612872411
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-249) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Nicholson, Andrew J. Unifying Hinduism. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010 9780231149860
Standard no.:	9786612872419 10.7312/nich14986

Table of Contents:

Introduction
An alternative history of Vedānta
Vijñānabhikṣu's "difference and non-difference" Vedānta
A history of God in Sāṃkhya and yoga
Reading against the grain of the Sāṃkhyasūtras
Yoga, praxis, and liberation
Vendānta and Sāṃkhya in the orientalist imagination
Doxography, classificatory schemes, and contested histories
Affirmers (astikas) and deniers (nastikas) in Indian history
Hindu unity and the non-Hindu other.