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The Hindus: An Alternative History

By Wendy Doniger

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Group
Year
2009
ISBN
110102870X, 9781101028704
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (13022039 bytes)
Pages
800\899
Topic
History
Time added
2021-07-04 11:29:26

Description

"Don't miss this equivalent of a brilliant graduate course froma feisty and exhilarating teacher." -The Washington Post An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth, The Hindus offers a new way of understanding one of the world's oldest major religions. Hinduism does not lend itself easily to a strictly chronological account. Many of its central texts cannot be reliably dated within a century; its central tenets arise at particular moments in Indian history and often differ according to gender or caste; and the differences between groups of Hindus far outnumber the commonalities. Yet the greatness of Hinduism lies precisely in many of these idiosyncratic qualities that continues to inspire debate today. This groundbreaking work elucidates the relationship between recorded history and imaginary worlds, the inner life and the social history of Hindus.

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