Introduction;
; Part I: Historical Perspectives,; 1: A Radical Reassessment of
the Vedic Heritage: The Acaryahrdayam and its Wider Implications by
Friedhelm Hardy;; 2: Religious Configurations in Medieval India and
the Modern Concept of Hinduism by Heinrich von Stietencron;; 3:
'The Only Real Religion of the Hindus': Vaisnava
Self-representation in the Late Nineteenth Century by Vasudha
Dalmia; Part II: The Changing Faces of Religious Authority;; 4:
Sankara as Jagadguru According to Sankara-Digvijaya by
Angelika Malinar;; 5: Madhva and the Reform of Vaisnavism in
Karnataka by Robert J. Zydenbos;; 6: Practical Vedanta by Wilhelm
Halbfass; Part III: Law, History and the Nationalization of
Hinduism:; 8:
History and the Nationalization of Hinduism by Partha Chatterjee;;
9: . The Representation of Gods and Heroes in the Parsi
Mythological Drama of the Early Twentieth Century by Anuradha
Kapur; Part IV: The Category 'Hindu' in Political Discourse of
Nepal;; 10: . The Category 'Hindu' in the Political Discourse of
Nepal by Richard Burghart;; 11: Counter-concepts and the Creation
of Cultural Identity: Hindus in the Militant Sikh Discourse by
Veena Das;; 12: The Vishva Hindu Parishad: A Nationalist
but Mimetic Attempt at Federating the Hindu Sects by Christophe
Jaffrelot;; 13: The Appeal of Hindu History by Gyanendra Pandey;;
14: Gendered Fractures in Hindu Nationalism: On the Subject-Members
of
the Rashtra Sevika Samiti by Paola Bacchetta; List of Contributors.
Vasudha Dalmia is Professor of Hindi and Modern South Asian
Studies, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies,
University of California, Berkeley.
Heinrich von Stietencron has been Professor of Indology and
Comparative History of Religion (1973-98) at the University of
Tuebingen. He was awarded the Padma Shree in 2004, the only foreign
scholar to have received this honour.
The 2009 paperback issue of this book makes a valuable resource
available for use in graduate and upper-level undergraduate
seminars on religion in South Asia. . . This is a book that
deserves to be on the bookshelf o?
*and to be read b?every student of South Asian religion.Religious
Studies Review*
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