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100 _aDoniger, Wendy
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245 4 _aThe Hindus: An Alternative History
260 _aNew Delhi:
_bThe Penguin Press,
_c2009.
300 _a779p.
505 _a Introduction: Working with Available light Time and space in India:50 Million to 50,000 BCE Civilization in the Indus Valley Between the Ruins and the text Humans, Animals, and Gods in the Rig Veda: 1500-1000 BCE -- Sacrifice in the Brahmanas: 800-500 BCE -- Renunciation in the Upanishads: 600-200 BCE -- The Three (or is it Four?) Aims of Life in the Hindu Imaginary -- Women and Ogresses in the Ramayana: 400 BCE to 200 CE -- Violence in the Mahabharata: 300 BCE-300 CE -- Dharma in the Mahabharata: 300 BCE-300 CE -- Escape Clauses in the Shastras: 100 BCE -- 400 CE -- Bhakti in South India: 100 BCE -- 900 CE -- Goddesses and Gods in the Early Puranas: 300-600 CE -- Sects and Sex in the Tantric Puranas and the Tantras: 650-900 -- Fusion and Rivalry under the Delhi Sultanate: 650-1500 CE -- Avatar and Accidental Grace in the Later Puranas: 800-1500 CE -- Philosophical Feuds in South India and Kashmir: 800-1300 CE -- Dialogue and Tolerance under the Mughals: 1500-1700 CE -- Hinduism under the Mughals: 1500-1700 CE -- Caste, Class, and Conversion under the British Raj: 1600-1900 CE -- Suttee and Reform in the Twilight of the Raj: 1800-1947 CE -- Hindus in America: 1900- -- The Past in the Present: 1950-
650 _aHinduism -- Social aspects -- History.
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650 _aPariahs in Hinduism -- History.
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650 _aWomen in Hinduism -- History.
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