The Oxford India Hinduism Reader

Vasudha Dalmia is Professor of Hindi and Modern South Asian Studies, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Heinrich von Stietencron has been Professor of Indology and Comparative History of Religion (1973-98) at the University of Tuebingen. He was awarded the Padma Shree in 2004, the only foreign scholar to have received this honour.

INTRODUCTION; ; PART I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES, ; 1. A Radical Reassessment of the Vedic Heritage: The Acaryahrdayam and its Wider Implications by Friedhelm Hardy; ; 2. Religious Configurations in Medieval India and the Modern Concept of Hinduism by Heinrich von Stietencron; ; 3. 'The Only Real Religion of the Hindus': Vaisnava Self-representation in the Late Nineteenth Century by Vasudha Dalmia; Part II: The Changing Faces of Religious Authority; ; 4. Sankara as Jagadguru According to Sankara-Digvijaya by Angelika Malinar; ; 5. Madhva and the Reform of Vaisnavism in Karnataka by Robert J. Zydenbos; ; 6. Practical Vedanta by Wilhelm Halbfass; Part III: Law, History and the Nationalization of Hinduism: ; 8. History and the Nationalization of Hinduism by Partha Chatterjee; ; 9. . The Representation of Gods and Heroes in the Parsi Mythological Drama of the Early Twentieth Century by Anuradha Kapur; Part IV: The Category 'Hindu' in Political Discourse of Nepal; ; 10. . The Category 'Hindu' in the Political Discourse of Nepal by Richard Burghart; ; 11. Counter-concepts and the Creation of Cultural Identity: Hindus in the Militant Sikh Discourse by Veena Das; ; 12. The Vishva Hindu Parishad: A Nationalist but Mimetic Attempt at Federating the Hindu Sects by Christophe Jaffrelot; ; 13. The Appeal of Hindu History by Gyanendra Pandey; ; 14. Gendered Fractures in Hindu Nationalism: On the Subject-Members of the Rashtra Sevika Samiti by Paola Bacchetta; List of Contributors.