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040			_cBITS Pilani Hyderabad _aBITS Pilani Hyderabad
041			_aENG
082			_a294.509 DON-W
100			_aDoniger, Wendy
245			_aHindus : _ban alternative history / _cWendy Doniger
260			_aNew York _bPenguin Press _c2009
300			_a779 p.
500			_aA 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.--Publisher description.
650			_aHinduism --Relationsﾠ
650			_aPariahs in Hinduism --Historyﾠ
650			_aWomen in Hinduism --Historyﾠ
650			_aHinduism --Social aspects --Historyﾠ
907			_a 294.509 DON-W
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