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Doniger, Wendy.
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Hinduism -- Social aspects -- History.
Women in Hinduism -- History.
Pariahs in Hinduism -- History.
Hinduism -- Relations.
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Doniger, Wendy.
Hinduism -- Social aspects -- History.
Women in Hinduism -- History.
Pariahs in Hinduism -- History.
Hinduism -- Relations.
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The Hindus : an alternative
history
/ Wendy Doniger.
by
Doniger, Wendy.
Penguin Press, 2009.
Call #:
294.509 D683h
Subjects
Hinduism
--
Social
aspects
--
History
.
Women in
Hinduism
--
History
.
Pariahs in
Hinduism
--
History
.
Hinduism
--
Relations.
ISBN:
9780670020317
0670020311
9781594202056 (hc)
1594202052 (hc)
Description:
779 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [729]-753) and index.
Contents:
Preface: The man or the rabbit in the moon
--
Introduction: Working with available light
--
Time and space in India : 50 million to 50,000 BCE
--
Civilization in the Indus Valley : 50,000 to 1500 BCE
--
Between the ruins and the text : 2000 to 1500 BCE
--
Humans, animals, and gods in the Rig Veda : 1500 to 1000 BCE
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Sacrifice in the Brahmanas : 800 to 500 BCE
--
Renunciation in the Upanishads : 600 to 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 to 300 CE
--
Dharma in the Mahabharata : 300 BCE to 300 CE
--
Escape clauses in the Shastras : 100 BCE to 400 CE
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Bhakti in South India : 100 BCE to 900 CE
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Goddesses and gods in the early Puranas : 300 to 600 CE
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Sects and sex in the Tantric Puranas and the Tantras : 600 to 900 CE
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Fusion and rivalry under the Delhi sultanate : 650 to 1500 CE
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Avatar and accidental grace in the later Puranas : 800 to 1500 CE
--
Philosophical feuds in South India and Kashmir : 800 to 1300 CE
--
Dialogue and tolerance under the Mughals : 1500 to 1700 CE
--
Hinduism
under the Mughals : 1500 to 1700 CE
--
Caste, class, and conversion under the British Raj : 1600 to 1900 CE
--
Suttee and reform in the twilight of the Raj : 1800 to 1947 CE
--
Hindus in America : 1900-
--
The past in the present : 1950-
--
Inconclusion, or the abuse of
history
.
Summary:
A narrative account of
history
and myth that offers a new way of understanding one of the world's oldest major religions, this book elucidates the relationship between recorded
history
and imaginary worlds.
Hinduism
does not lend itself easily to a strictly chronological account: many of its central texts cannot be reliably dated; its central tenets--karma, dharma, to name just two--arise at particular moments in Indian
history
and differ in each era, between genders, and caste to caste; and what is shared among Hindus is overwhelmingly outnumbered by the things that are unique to one group or another. Yet the greatness of Hinduism--its vitality, its earthiness, its vividness--lies precisely in many of those idiosyncratic qualities that continue to inspire debate today. Wendy Doniger, one of the world's foremost scholars of
Hinduism
, illuminates those moments within the tradition that resist forces that would standardize or establish a canon.--From publisher description.
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