...Subho Basu; Sikata Banerjee Duke University Press 2006 The Quest for Manhood: Masculine Hinduism and Nation in Bengal Subho Basu and Sikata Banerjee Seven millions sons...

... come to inform a Hindu revivalist project in the nineteenth century? Through examining Alakhdhari's career and writings, this article explores the entangled histories of Mughal Indology and colonial-era public Hinduism. Alakhdhari's oeuvre illuminates overlooked strands of the genealogy of modern...

... known of the bulk the form that texts These Turfan. near and in places cult various in and cave Dunhuang the in mostly territory, Chinese the in discovered texts who deciphered Sogdian Iranologists Grenet Frantz Hinduism and Manichaeism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, China...

... unrealized potentialities of the print medium in order to politicize the Hindu public. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Arya Samaj colonial India Hinduism secularism print culture Research for this article was made possible by grants from the American Institute for Pakistan Studies...

...Asghar Ali Engineer Copyright 1988: South Asia Bulletin 1988 South Asia Bulletin, volume 8 (1988) Shiv Sew - Protector of Hinduism or Menace to Minorities Asghar Ali Engineer The Shiv Sena is very much in the news these days. The communal character...

...Gregory A. Barton Historians have tangled with two difficult conceptualizations of Hinduism. One is the use of the term Hinduism , and the other, the relation between environmental ethics and Hinduism. One posits a “merry India” that is diverse, tolerant, and amorphous, impossible to pin down...

... with Hinduism often resulted in advocacy campaigns and the social sciences subsuming Dalit experiences into the social predicament of Hindus as a religious minority group. The decoupling of caste and religious minorities in the political and social domains in the aftermath of advocacy campaigns has led...

... and construction of several “Hindu-Buddhist” temples constructed in the 1930s by the Birla family that sought to construct a vision of India as a Hindu nation. A close examination of these sites reveals the wider dynamics underlining the transformation of modern Buddhism in India and, by extension, modern Hinduism...

... of the West in Nineteenth Century Bengal (New Delhi: Oxford Univer- 310 sity Press, 1986), 220. nationalists who claimed Indian nationhood in standing the exclusive character of the national- the name of Hinduism? Was his vision...

... about 1775, the European scholars who directly studied Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, and other Asian religions in Asia itself were almost all Catholic mission- aries, many of them Jesuits.1 After this date, secular scholarly administrators stationed in Asian countries...

... on (Spiritual authority and Temporal Power).lo In this Hinduism, Introduction ghhale d l’e‘tude des doctrines hin- pamphlet, Guinon clearly expresses his concept of a dous (General Introduction to the Study of Hindu universal model of hierarchical relationships, accord- Doctrines),6 which marked...

... and disillusionment, especially among the strategies of the BJP in spreading the influence of status quoist upper caste and the restless and up- political Hinduism. But it is also necessary to con- wardly mobile backward and scheduled castes and sider the role played by caste, class and communal classes...

... all the characteristics of a fascist spectacle, the fascist project in India passes through hysterical coming on top of many preparatory spectacles, religiosity and marketable Hinduism, some com- carefully calibrated over the years. It displayed the familiar fascistic relationship between...

... the movement of medieval India and the vast scriptural prisoner of the “bookish culture” of a caste of intel- resources of Upanishadic Hinduism and we re- lectuals who were not “an articulation, with organic sponded to the fascists in this new idiom...

... mobilization in the service of Rama struck responsive they be under Hindu rule or British rule This a (Pandita Ramabai, 1891).1 cord among so many? article will examine the creation of this new Hinduism, its claim...

... and increase the Hindus. His Hindutva was consequently at war with orthodox Hinduism. Savarkar strikingly and at every juncture asked “the Hindus” to remodel themselves after his enemy, with whom he intensely identified: the Muslim man. Muslims, his reasoning went, were successful. They would trump Hindus...

...- subsequent decades to Trinidad, Guyana, Fiji, Malaya ture.4 However, despite the breakdown in caste, and the East African colonies. The indenture system Hinduism has managed to survive and flourish in many was modified and replaced after the 1880s mainly be- of these societies. The discusion of Hinduism...

... based on pollution and the Hindus. H.V. Seshadri, the RSS chief argues purity. The STs, however, are by and large free of that united Hinduism would eradicate caste-based rigid caste hierarchy, but status...

... in their special singularity and distinctive containments of power, and the meanings of subalterns detail contested the tenor of ritual power and colonial and the margins of Hinduism. Before I turn to these authority in Chhattisgarh, but they also reproduced themes that run as connected strands...

... century marked the end of Buddhist dominion (and brought about the “Dark Ages” of Hinduism). While scholars have done much to combat such ahistoricist renderings, it remains an ongoing exercise to reimagine (and re-enliven) the relationship between people, faith, and space. This issue opens with a special...