Scarecrow Press, 2011. — 390 p. Hinduism is the world's third largest religion and still growing. It is the oldest major religion with a tradition reaching back millennia and having many notable peaks and periods of glory. It has influenced and been affected by other world religions, including Islam and Buddhism, as well as Christianity. Despite repeated attempts to contain it,...
Penguin, 2010. — 800 p. Editorial Reviews . "This is history as great entertainment! Unlike the usual, arid accounts of dynasties, Wendy Doniger's double vision of Hinduism is about women, merchants, lower castes, animals, spirits and , of course, Dead Male Brahmins. This lively, earthy account explains why ancient India is the world's richest storytelling culture." --Gurcharan...
University of Chicago Press, 2016. — 280 p. Historians of religion have examined at length the Protestant Reformation and the liberal idea of the self-governing individual that arose from it. In Spiritual Despots , J. Barton Scott reveals an unexamined piece of this story: how Protestant technologies of asceticism became entangled with Hindu spiritual practices to create an...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 306 p. This book challenges the view, common among Western scholars, that precolonial India lacked a tradition of military philosophy. It traces the evolution of theories of warfare in India from the dawn of civilization, focusing on the debate between Dharmayuddha (Just War) and Kutayuddha (Unjust War) within Hindu philosophy. This debate...
Oxford University Press, 1998. — 704 p. — (Scholar's edition). This is the full edition of the early Upanisads, the central scriptures of Hinduism. Featuring Patrick Olivelle's acclaimed new English translation (Oxford, 1996), it also includes the complete Sanskrit text, as well as variant readings, scholarly emendations, and explanations of Olivelle's choices of particular...
SAGE Publications, 2018. — 336 p. Is the history of Hinduism, the history of brahmanas from rigvedic times to the present? Or, does the story of Hinduism begin with the descriptions of the ancient roots as revealed by archaeological findings and the evidence from present day tribal, village and regional cultures? This book looks at both. The history of Brahmanas, tracing their...
Columbia University Press, 2010. — 266 p. Some postcolonial theorists argue that the idea of a single system of belief known as "Hinduism" is a creation of nineteenth-century British imperialists. Andrew J. Nicholson introduces another perspective: although a unified Hindu identity is not as ancient as some Hindus claim, it has its roots in innovations within South Asian...
Colombo: M. D. Gunasena & Co. Ltd., 1957. — 210 p. The Pre-Buddhist Period. The Buddhist Era. Tamil Conquests of Ceylon and the Rise of the Independent Tamil Kingdom of Jaffna. The Occupation of Ceylon by European Powers. Objects of Worship. Temples and Temple Ritual. Festivals and Pilgrimages. Caste. Customs. Astrology, Auspicious Days and Magic. Modern Movements. Illustrations.