The Hindus : an alternative history / Wendy Doniger.
2009
294.509 D683h 2009
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Title
The Hindus : an alternative history / Wendy Doniger.
Author
ISBN
9781594202056 (hc)
1594202052 (hc)
1594202052 (hc)
Imprint
New York : Penguin Press, c2009.
Language
English
Description
779 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number
294.509 D683h 2009
System Control No.
(OCoLC)256534061
(OCoLC)256534061
(OCoLC)256534061
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [729]-753) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
The man or the rabbit in the moon
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
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
Bhakti in South India : 100 BCE to 900 CE
Goddesses and gods in the early Puranas : 300 to 600 CE
Sects and sex in the Tantric Puranas and the Tantras : 600 to 900 CE
Fusion and rivalry under the Delhi sultanate : 650 to 1500 CE
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.
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
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
Bhakti in South India : 100 BCE to 900 CE
Goddesses and gods in the early Puranas : 300 to 600 CE
Sects and sex in the Tantric Puranas and the Tantras : 600 to 900 CE
Fusion and rivalry under the Delhi sultanate : 650 to 1500 CE
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.
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