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Author Doniger, Wendy.

Title The Hindus : an alternative history / Wendy Doniger.

Publication Info. New York : Penguin Press, 2009.

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 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  294.5 DONIGER    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  294.5 D71    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  294.509 DONIGER    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  294.509 DONIGER c.2  Check Shelf
Description 779 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [704]-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 -- 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.
Subject Hinduism -- Social aspects -- History.
Women in Hinduism -- History.
Pariahs in Hinduism -- History.
Hinduism -- Relations.
ISBN 9781594202056 hardcover $35.00
1594202052 hardcover $35.00
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