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Modernity, which emphasizes the relegation of religion firmly to an individual’s private life, is a challenging idea for any culture. In India it faces a particularly unusual problem: the persistence of numerous traditional and religious practices means that religion and modernity co-habit here in a complex, plural, transient, and historically evolving relationship.
Religion and Modernity in India explores this complex relationship through a series of case ...
Kevala-Bodhi: Buddhist and Jaina History of the Deccan is a collection of papers with a special focus on two religious that left an inedible mark on the history of the Deccan and, in turn, marked a visible change in the way both these religions developed over the early historic and early medieval times. Though each of these has been dealt with separately in monographs and research papers in the past, this is the first time that these religions have been discussed ...
Social divisions in contemporary India have a long and complex history. This collection of eleven essays in the Themes in Indian History series, discusses various historiographical approaches to the study of marginalized society in early India in the period before 1500 AD. This volume analyses the historical roots of social oppression and exclusion of the 'other' that have marked the making of identities in the Indian subcontinent. With contributions from Romila ...