The Hindus : an alternative history /

The Hindus : an alternative history /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Doniger, Wendy, author.
Edition:	Second edtion.
Imprint:	New Delhi : Speaking Tiger, 2015. ©2015
Description:	779 pages : illustrates, maps ; 29 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Hinduism -- Social aspects -- History. Women in Hinduism -- History. Pariahs in Hinduism -- History. Hinduism -- Relations. Hinduism. Hinduism -- Social aspects. Interfaith relations. Pariahs in Hinduism. Women in Hinduism. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11937476

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ISBN:	9789385288661 9385288660
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 729-753) and index.
Summary:	An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth, The Hindus offers a new way of understanding one of the world's oldest major religions. Hinduism does not lend itself easily to a strictly chronological account. Many of its central texts cannot be reliably dated within a century; its central tenets arise at particular moments in Indian history and often differ according to gender or caste; and the differences between groups of Hindus far outnumber the commonalities. Yet the greatness of Hinduism lies precisely in many of these idiosyncratic qualities that continues to inspire debate today. This groundbreaking work elucidates the relationship between recorded history and imaginary worlds, the inner life and the social history of Hindus. --

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Working with Available Light
Time and Space in India: 50 Million BCE to 50,000 BCE
Civilization in the Indus Valley: 50 Million to 1500 BCE
Between the Ruins and the Text: 2000 to 1500 BCE
Humans, Animals, and Gods in the Rig Veda: 1500-1000 BCE
Sacrifice in the Brahmanas: 800-500 BCE
Renunciation in the Upanishads: 600-200 BCE
The Three (or is it Four?) Aims of Life in the Hindu Imaginary
Women and Ogresses in the Ramayana: 400 BCE to 200 CE
Violence in the Mahabharata: 300 BCE-300 CE
Dharma in the Mahabharata: 300 BCE-300 CE
Escape Clauses in the Shastras: 100 BCE
400 CE
Bhakti in South India: 100 BCE
900 CE
Goddesses and Gods in the Early Puranas: 300-600 CE
Sects and Sex in the Tantric Puranas and the Tantras: 650-900
Fusion and Rivalry under the Delhi Sultanate: 650-1500 CE
Avatar and Accidental Grace in the Later Puranas: 800-1500 CE
Philosophical Feuds in South India and Kashmir: 800-1300 CE
Dialogue and Tolerance under the Mughals: 1500-1700 CE
Hinduism under the Mughals: 1500-1700 CE
Caste, Class, and Conversion under the British Raj: 1600-1900 CE
Suttee and Reform in the Twilight of the Raj: 1800-1947 CE
Hindus in America: 1900-
The Past in the Present: 1950-