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The Hindus: An Alternative History
Wendy Doniger
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Description for The Hindus: An Alternative History
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 800 pages, 4 maps, 12 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 157 x 61. Weight in Grams: 1252.
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, The Hindus 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 even within a century; 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 ... Read more
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, The Hindus 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 even within a century; 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
800
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
800
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199593347
SKU
V9780199593347
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Reviews for The Hindus: An Alternative History
Scholarly, witty, and even-handed... one of the most profound and enlightening anatomisations of Hindu history I have ever read.
Jonathan Wright, Sunday Herald
It is one of the most profound and enlightening anatomisations of Hindu history I have ever read.
Jonathan Wright, Sunday Herald
You will learn a huge amount about both the main thoroughfares and ... Read more
Jonathan Wright, Sunday Herald
It is one of the most profound and enlightening anatomisations of Hindu history I have ever read.
Jonathan Wright, Sunday Herald
You will learn a huge amount about both the main thoroughfares and ... Read more