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The Hindus : an alternative history / Wendy Doniger.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection BL1151.3 .D66 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Doniger, Wendy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hinduism--Social aspects--History.
- Hinduism.
- Women in Hinduism--History.
- Women in Hinduism.
- Pariahs in Hinduism--History.
- Pariahs in Hinduism.
- Hinduism--Relations.
- Relations.
- History.
- Hinduism--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 779 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Press, 2009.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [729]-753) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780670020317
- 0670020311
- 9781594202056
- 1594202052
- OCLC:
- 256534061
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