An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth that offers a new way of understanding one of the world's oldest major religions from one of the world's foremost scholars on Hinduism. INDICE: Preface: The Man or the Rabbit in the Moon; 1: Introduction: Working with Available Light; 2: Time and Space in India: 50 Million to 50,000 BCE; 3: Civilization in the Indus Valley: 50,000 to 1500 BCE; 4: Between the Ruins and the Text: 2000 to 1500 BCE; 5: Humans, Animals, and Gods in the Rig Veda: 1500 to 1000 BCE; 6: Sacrifice in the Brahmanas: 800 to 500 BCE; 7: Renunciation in the Upanishads: 600 to 200 BCE; 8: The Three (or Is It Four?) Aims of Life in the Hindu Imaginary; 9: Women and Ogresses in the Ramayana: 400 BCE to 200 CE; 10: Violence in the Mahabharata: 300 BCE to 300 CE; 11: Dharma in the Mahabharata: 300 BCE to 300 CE; 12: Escape Clauses in the Shastras: 100 BCEto 400 CE; 13: Bhakti in South India: 100 BCE to 900 CE; 14: Goddesses and Gods in the Early Puranas: 300 to 600 CE; 15: Sects and Sex in Tantric Puranas and the Tantras: 600 to 900 CE; 16: Fusion and Rivalry Under the Dehli Sultanate: 650 to 1500 CE; 17: Avatar and Accidental Grace in the Later Puranas: 800 to 1500 CE; 18: Philosophical Feuds in South INdia and Kashmir: 800 to 1300 CE;19: Dialogue and Tolerance Under the Mughals: 1500 to 1700 CE; 20: Hinduism Under the Mughals: 1500 to 1700 CE; 21: Caste, Class, and Conversion Under the British Raj: 1600 to 1900 CE; 22: Suttee and Reform in the Twilight of the Raj: 1800 to 1947 CE; 23: Hindus in America: 1900-; 24: The Past in the Present: 1950-; 25: Inconclusion, or, the Abuse of History; Chronology; Guide to Pronunciation and Spelling; Glossary
- ISBN: 978-0-19-959334-7
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 800
- Fecha Publicación: 30/09/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés