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Challenges the monolithic view of Hinduism in the nineteenth century, and instead offers a vision of India that contains a rich multiplicity of Hinduisms, women's stories, and cultural histories.
In her introduction to Hindu Pasts-which showcases her work as a scholar of social, literary, and religious history-Vasudha Dalmia outlines the central ideas which thread her writings: first, to understand in greater historical depth the relationship between body language, religion, and society in India, as well as the ever-changing role of its religious and social institutions; second, to recognize that the Hindu tradition, which colonials and nationalists tend to see as monolithic, is in fact a multiplicity of distinct and semi-autonomous strands.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Where these Essays are Coming From Part I. Colonial Knowledge-Formation
1. Friedrich Max Muller: Appropriations of the Vedic Past
2. Sanskrit Scholars and Pandits of the Old School: The Benares Sanskrit College and the Constitution of Authority in the Late Nineteenth Century
3. Sati as a Religious Rite: Parliamentary Papers on Widow Immolation
4. Mosques, Temples, and Fields of Disputation in a Late-Eighteenth-Century Chronicle
5. Vernacular Histories in Late-Nineteenth-Century Banaras: Folklore, Puranas, and the New Antiquarianism Part II. Vaishnava Renewals C. 1600-1900
6. Forging Community: The Guru in a Seventeenth-Century Vaishnava Hagiography
7. Women, Duty, and Sanctified Space in a Vaishnava Hagiography of the Seventeenth Century
8. The Sixth Gaddi of the Vallabha Sampraday: Narrative Structure and Authority in a Varta of the Nineteenth Century
9. The Modernity of Tradition: Harishchandra of Banaras and the Defence of Hindu Dharma Part III. The Hindi Novel: Nineteenth-Century Beginnings
10. A Novel Moment in Hindi: Pariksha Guru
11. Generic Questions: Bharatendu Harishchandra and Women's Issues
12. Pilgrimage, Fairs, and the Secularization of Space in Modern Hindi Narrative Discourses
13. The Locations of Hindi
14. Hindi, Nation, and Community
