...Manu Bhagavan Abstract In the early twentieth century, Hindutva, or Hindu nationalism, was a philosophy premised on exclusivist notions of “nation-ness” and “nation-state-ness.” India, proponents claimed, had since the earliest times been the pitrabhumi and the punyabhumi of Hindus—their fatherland...

... of the worst in India since partition in 1947, drew responses of horror from across India and the world. Although the assault on Muslims followed an apparent (all the facts will never be known) assault on Hindu pilgrims travelling through the railway station at Godhra, in eastern Gujarat, in which fifty-nine...

...Phillip B. Wagoner Abstract When Robert Sewell inaugurated the modern study of the South Indian state of Vijayanagara with his classic A Forgotten Empire (1900), he characterized the state as “a Hindu bulwark against Muhammadan conquests” (Sewell [1900] 1962, 1), thereby formulating one...

...Leela Fernandes Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation: Community, Religion, and Cultural Nationalism . By Tanika Sarkar . London : Hurst , 2001 . viii , 290 pp. £25.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 683 struggles to achieve...

...Robert W. Hefner The Struggle of the Hindu Balinese Intellectuals: Developments in Modern Hindu Thinking in Independent Indonesia . By Frederick Lambertus Bakker . Amsterdam : Vrije University Press , 1993 . 389 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994...

...Vasudha Narayanan Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition . By David Kinsley . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1986 . viii, 281 pp. Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $35. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies...

... to India to escape the Mongol holocaust. He died near Delhi in A.D. 1350, having spent the last thirty years or more of his life there writing on Sufism and romantic themes, and doing adaptations from Hindu erotica. His best-known work is the present one, based on the Sanskrit Shukasaptati (Seventy Tales...

...Lawrence Palmer Briggs Hindu colonies in the Far East . By R. C. Majumdar . Calcutta , 1944 . 232 p. 20 plates. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1947 1947 1 Since Buddhism is probably as old as Brahmanism in this region, this reviewer prefers the term...

...Brian A. Hatcher Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds . By Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2020 . xv, 190 pp. ISBN: 9781438480114 . Gods in the Time of Democracy . By kajri jain . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2021 . xix...

...Murray J. Leaf Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 Caste and Kin in Nepal, India and Ceylon: Anthropological Studies in Hindu-Buddhist Contact Zones . Edited by Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1966 . vii, 364 pp...

...Paul J. Will Vedanta: An Anthology of Hindu Scripture, Commentary and Poetry . Edited by Clive Johnson . New York : Harper and Row , 1971 . xii. 243 pp. Bibliography. Glossary. $6.95. Essays on Indian Philosophy . By Shri Krishna Saksena . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press...

...Pauline Kolenda Hindu Society: An Interpretation . By Irawati Karve . Poona : Deshmukh Prakashan , 1968 . x, 180 pp. n.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 700 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES to ask for whom, beyond a small elite, this conception is useful...

...Royal W. Weiler Hindu Polytheism . By Alain Daniélou . New York : Pantheon Books , 1964 . xxxi, 537 . Appendix; Bibliography; Plates. $8.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965 1965 BOOK REVIEWS 715 ond paper suggests a progressive land tax, based on size...

...Bert F. Hoselitz Papers on National Income and Allied Topics; Vol. II . Edited by V. K. R. V. Rao , S. R. Sen , M. V. Divatia , and Uma Datta . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1962 . $8.00. Hindu Culture; Economic Development and Economic Planning in India; A Collection...

...Allen Atwell Principles of Composition in Hindu Sculpture; Cave Temple Period . By Alice Boner . Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1962 . xv , 260 . Glossary, Plates. D. gld 96. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 BOOK REVIEWS 333 were sites of cattle-pens; and (3...

...A. Bharati Western Psychotherapy and Hindu Sadhana . By Hans Jacobs . London : George Allen & Unwin , 1961 . 232 . Plates. 32s. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 BOOK REVIEWS 639 of the work force of the Poona factories. Recognizing the variable impact...

...Richard L. Park The Indian Heritage . By Humayun Kabir . Bombay : Asia Publishing House , third (rev. and enl.) ed., 1955 . xi, 170 . $1.10. Hindu Society at Cross Roads . By K. M. Panikkar . Bombay : Asia Publishing House , 1955 . 102 . $.95. Copyright © The Association...

...Carl Olson Modern Hindu Thought: The Essential Texts . By Arvind Sharma . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2002 . 383 pp. $29.95 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 B O O K R E V I E W S S O U T H A S I A 449 book is an excellent introduction...

...Carl Olson The Ramakrishna Mission: The Making of a Modern Hindu Movement . By Gwilym Beckerlegge . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2001 . 219 pp. $32.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 428 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S SOUTH ASIA...

...Jay Ramesh Hindu Pluralism: Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South India . By Elaine M. Fisher . Oakland : University of California Press , 2017 . xii , 285 pp. ISBN: 9780520293014 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 One...