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Publication

University of California Press, Oakland, California, No place, unknown, or undetermined

Language

English

Word Count

75,000 words, Guess

Page Count

300 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780520293014
  • ISBN-139780520966291
  • ISBN-100520293010
  • ISBN-100520966295
  • Library of Congress Control Number2016046548
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Classifications

  • LCCBL1153.7.S68F57 2017
  • LCCBL1153.7.S68 F57 2017

Description

In Hindu Pluralism, Elaine M. Fisher complicates the traditional scholarly narrative of the unification of Hinduism. By calling into question the colonial categories implicit in the term ?sectarianism,? Fisher?s work excavates the pluralistic textures of precolonial Hinduism in the centuries prior to British intervention. Drawing on previously unpublished sources in Sanskrit, Tamil, and Telugu, Fisher argues that the performance of plural religious identities in public space in Indian early modernity paved the way for the emergence of a distinctively non-Western form of religious pluralism. This work provides a critical resource for understanding how Hinduism developed in the early modern period, a crucial era that set the tenor for religion?s role in public life in India through the present day.

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