...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...

...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...

...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...

...John Stratton Hawley Kabir: The Apostle of Hindu-Muslim Unity: Interaction of Hindu-Muslim Ideas in the Formation of the Bhakti Movement with Special Reference to Kabīr, the Bhakta . By Muhammad Hedayetullah , Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass , 1977 . xxiv, 320 pp. Notes, Bibliography. Rs...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

...Phillip B. Wagoner The Hungry God: Hindu Tales of Filicide and Devotion . By David Shulman . Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 1993 . x, 157 pp. $27.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 248 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES repeating...

...Matthew R. Dasti Against a Hindu God: Buddhist Philosophy of Religion in India . By Parimal G. Patil . New York : Columbia University Press , 2009 . xi , 406 pp. $50.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 Against a Hindu God: Buddhist...

...Vincanne Adams Moral Knowing in a Hindu Sacred City: An Exploration of Mind, Emotion, and Self . By Steven M. Parish . New York : Columbia University Press , 1994 . xii, 342 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $17.50 (paper). The Rulings of the Night: Ethnography of Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts...

...Mark Juergensmeyer Har Dayal: Hindu Revolutionary and Rationalist . By Emily Brown . Tucson : The University of Arizona Press , 1975 . xiv, 321 pp. Bibliography, Index. $7.95 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 BOOK REVIEWS 519 could only produce deadlock...

...Joseph T. O'Connell The Sword and the Flute: Kālī and Krsna, Dark Visions of the Terrible and the Sublime in Hindu Mythology . By David R. Kinsley . Berkeley , University of California Press , 1975 . viii, 168 pp. Notes, Works Cited. $12.00 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies...

...Haimanti Roy Hindu-Muslim Riots . By Richard D. Lambert . Karachi : Oxford University Press , 2014 . xii, 285 pp. ISBN: 9780199068593 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016  2016 Communal violence in India, especially between Hindus...

...James F. Fisher Priests and Cobblers: A Study of Social Change in a Hindu Village in Western Nepal . By A. Patricia Caplan . Scranton : Chandler Publishing Co. , 1972 . xi 103 pp. Tables, Maps, Bibliography, Index. $2.75. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973 1973...

...Brian A. Hatcher 4. For two examples, see Joanne Punzo Waghorne, The Diaspora of the Gods: Modern Hindu Temples in an Urban Middle Class World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005); and Hanna Kim, “Public Engagement and Personal Desires: BAPS Swaminarayan Temples and Their Contribution...

...Chad M. Bauman Abstract While Hindu-Muslim violence in India has received a great deal of scholarly attention, Hindu-Christian violence has not. This article seeks to contribute to the analysis of Hindu-Christian violence, and to elucidate the curious alliance, in that violence, of largely upper...

...Agehananda Bharati Hindu Culture and Personality . By Philipp Spratt . Bombay : Manaktalas , 1966 . viii, 400 pp. Bibliography, Index, n.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 BOOK REVIEWS 519 and long-time member of the Working Committee, must have had...

...Kenneth W. Jones Abstract South Asian scholars have long viewed communal competition in terms of majority-minority struggle, of Hindu versus Muslim, leading to the final partition of the British Raj into two antagonistic states. Punjab history offers a dramatic case of religious competitiveness...

...Michael W. Meister Hindu Temple Art of Orissa. Vol. 1 . By Thomas E. Donaldson . Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1985 . (Studies in South Asian Culture, vol. 12, pt. 1.) xxii, 562 pp. Maps, Charts, Diagrams, Groundplans, Plate-Figures. $95.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

... scrutiny would have prevented such errors as I have cited. University of Hawaii PETER H. LEE 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...