Devotional Sovereignty: Kingship and Religion in India investigates the shifting conceptualization of sovereignty in the South Indian kingdom of Mysore during the reigns of Tipu Sultan (r. 1782-1799) and Krishnaraja Wodeyar III (r. 1799-1868). Tipu Sultan was a Muslim king famou…
In this groundbreaking ethnography, Townsend Middleton engages two communities- minorities seeking tribal status and government anthropologists-to examine the escalating politics of recognition and affirmative action in India. From the violent struggles for Gorkhaland to the tri…
A narrative account of history and myth that offers a new way of understanding one of the world's oldest major religions, this book elucidates the relationship between recorded history and imaginary worlds. Hinduism does not lend itself easily to a strictly chronological account…
A narrative account of history and myth that offers a new way of understanding one of the world's oldest major religions, this book elucidates the relationship between recorded history and imaginary worlds. Hinduism does not lend itself easily to a strictly chronological account…
"Exploration of how post-1945 American writers, including Jack Kerouac, Alice Walker, and Maxine Hong Kingston, have tried to reconcile US goal-oriented individualism with Buddhist and Hindu transcendent teachings"--
Study on iconography of Hindu gods and goddesses as laid out in the Rudrādivyaktaliṅgavartana (6th chapter of Pratiṣṭhālakṣaṇasārasamuccaya); includes text of original.
Study on iconography of Hindu gods and goddesses as laid out in the Rudrādivyaktaliṅgavartana (6th chapter of Pratiṣṭhālakṣaṇasārasamuccaya); includes text of original.
"Hinduism in the Modern World presents a new and unprecedented attempt to survey the nature, range, and significance of modern and contemporary Hinduism in South Asia and the global diaspora. Organized to reflect the direction of recent scholarly research, this volume breaks wit…
"Hinduism in the Modern World presents a new and unprecedented attempt to survey the nature, range, and significance of modern and contemporary Hinduism in South Asia and the global diaspora. Organized to reflect the direction of recent scholarly research, this volume breaks wit…
"By the early eighteenth century, the Mughal Empire was in decline and the East India Company was making in-roads into the subcontinent with an eye on spices, indigo, and opium. A century later, Christian missionaries, Hindu "reformers," Muslim saints, and Sikh rebels formed the…
"By the early eighteenth century, the Mughal Empire was in decline and the East India Company was making in-roads into the subcontinent with an eye on spices, indigo, and opium. A century later, Christian missionaries, Hindu "reformers," Muslim saints, and Sikh rebels formed the…
"By the early eighteenth century, the Mughal Empire was in decline and the East India Company was making in-roads into the subcontinent with an eye on spices, indigo, and opium. A century later, Christian missionaries, Hindu "reformers," Muslim saints, and Sikh rebels formed the…
