Representing Hinduism : The construction of religious traditions and national idealism

By:

Dalmia Vasudha

Contributor(s):

Stieteneron Heinrich Von

Publication details: New Delhi Sage Publications 1995Description: 467pISBN:

9780803991941

Subject(s):

1.Hinduism

DDC classification:

294.500000 DAL-4

Contents:

Table of contents Introduction - Vasudha Dalmia and Heinrich von Stietencron PART ONE: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE A Radical Reassessment of the Vedic Heritage - The Acaryahrdayam and Its Wider Implications - Friedhelm Hardy Religious Configurations in Pre-Muslim India and the Modern Concept of Hinduism - Heinrich von Stietencron Shifting Categories in the Discourse on Caste - Gita Dharampal-Frick Some Historical Observations PART TWO: NINETEENTH CENTURY RECONSTRUCTIONS History and the Nationalisation of Hinduism - Partha Chatterjee The Category 'Hindu' in the Political Discourse of Nepal - Richard Burghart From Krishnalila to Ramarajya - J[um]urgen L[um]utt A Court Case and its Consequences for the Reformulation of Hinduism Whose Laws? - Sudhir Chandra Notes on a Nineteenth Century Hindu Case of Conjugal Rights 'The Only True Religion of the Hindus' - Vasudha Dalmia Vaisnava Self-Representation in the Late Nineteenth Century Practical Vedanta - Wilhelm Halbfass Pandita Ramabai - Ram Bapat Faith and Reason in the Shadow of the East and West The Reversal of Orientalism - Sudipta Kaviraj Bhudev Mukhopadhyay and the Project of Indigenist Social Theory PART THREE: IMAGES AND COUNTER-IMAGES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Hind Swaraj as a Statement of Tradition in the Modern World - Suresh Sharma Towards a Universal Dharma - Monika Horstmann Kalyan and the Tracts of the Gita Press The Personal Law Question and Hindu Nationalism - Dieter Conrad Composite Culture and Communal Consciousness - Javeed Alam Ittehadul Muslimeen in Hyderabad Counterconcepts and the Creation of Cultural Identity - Veena Das Hindus in the Militant Sikh Discourse The Appeal of Hindu History - Gyanendra Pandey The Erosion of Folk Religion in Modern India - G[um]unther D Sontheimer Some Points for Deliberation PART FOUR: THE PERFORMING ARTS AND THE FORMATION OF A PAN-INDIAN 'HINDU' TRADITION The Representation of Gods and Heroes in the Parsi Mythological Drama of the Early Twentieth Century - Anuradha Kapur Authenticity and Tradition - Roma Chatterji Reappraising a 'Folk' Form The Bhagvadgita in the Mahabharata TV Serial - Angelika Malinar Domestic Drama and Dharmic Solutions

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Table of contents

Introduction - Vasudha Dalmia and Heinrich von Stietencron
PART ONE: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
A Radical Reassessment of the Vedic Heritage - The Acaryahrdayam and Its Wider Implications - Friedhelm Hardy
Religious Configurations in Pre-Muslim India and the Modern Concept of Hinduism - Heinrich von Stietencron
Shifting Categories in the Discourse on Caste - Gita Dharampal-Frick
Some Historical Observations
PART TWO: NINETEENTH CENTURY RECONSTRUCTIONS
History and the Nationalisation of Hinduism - Partha Chatterjee
The Category 'Hindu' in the Political Discourse of Nepal - Richard Burghart
From Krishnalila to Ramarajya - J[um]urgen L[um]utt
A Court Case and its Consequences for the Reformulation of Hinduism
Whose Laws? - Sudhir Chandra
Notes on a Nineteenth Century Hindu Case of Conjugal Rights
'The Only True Religion of the Hindus' - Vasudha Dalmia
Vaisnava Self-Representation in the Late Nineteenth Century
Practical Vedanta - Wilhelm Halbfass
Pandita Ramabai - Ram Bapat
Faith and Reason in the Shadow of the East and West
The Reversal of Orientalism - Sudipta Kaviraj
Bhudev Mukhopadhyay and the Project of Indigenist Social Theory
PART THREE: IMAGES AND COUNTER-IMAGES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Hind Swaraj as a Statement of Tradition in the Modern World - Suresh Sharma
Towards a Universal Dharma - Monika Horstmann
Kalyan and the Tracts of the Gita Press
The Personal Law Question and Hindu Nationalism - Dieter Conrad
Composite Culture and Communal Consciousness - Javeed Alam
Ittehadul Muslimeen in Hyderabad
Counterconcepts and the Creation of Cultural Identity - Veena Das
Hindus in the Militant Sikh Discourse
The Appeal of Hindu History - Gyanendra Pandey
The Erosion of Folk Religion in Modern India - G[um]unther D Sontheimer
Some Points for Deliberation
PART FOUR: THE PERFORMING ARTS AND THE FORMATION OF A PAN-INDIAN 'HINDU' TRADITION
The Representation of Gods and Heroes in the Parsi Mythological Drama of the Early Twentieth Century - Anuradha Kapur
Authenticity and Tradition - Roma Chatterji
Reappraising a 'Folk' Form
The Bhagvadgita in the Mahabharata TV Serial - Angelika Malinar
Domestic Drama and Dharmic Solutions

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