On Hinduism by Doniger, Wendy -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Praise for the Book About the Book About the Author Book Information Copyright Contents Introduction: Foreword into the Past A Chronology of Hinduism ON BEING HINDU

Hinduism by Any Other Name Are Hindus Monotheists or Polytheists? Three (or More) Forms of the Three (or More)-Fold Path in Hinduism The Concept of Heresy in Hinduism Eating Karma Medical and Mythical Constructions of the Body in Sanskrit Texts Death and Rebirth in Hinduism Forgetting and Re-awakening to Incarnation Assume the Position: The Fight over the Body of Yoga The Toleration of Intolerance in Hinduism The Politics of Hinduism Tomorrow

GODS, HUMANS AND ANTI-GODS

WOMEN AND OTHER GENDERS

KAMA AND OTHER SEDUCTIONS

HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS

The Ambivalence of Ahimsa Zoomorphism in Ancient India: Humans More Bestial than the Beasts The Mythology of Horses in India The Submarine Mare in the Mythology of Shiva Indra as the Stallion’s Wife Dogs as Dalits in Indian Literature Sacred Cows and Beefeaters

ILLUSION AND REALITY IN THE HINDU EPICS

Impermanence and Eternity in Hindu Epic, Art and Performance Shadows of the Ramayana Women in the Mahabharata The History of Ekalavya

ON NOT BEING HINDU

‘I Have Scinde’: Orientalism and Guilt Doniger O’Flaherty on Doniger You Can’t Make an Omelette The Forest-dweller

Appendix I: Limericks on Hinduism Appendix II: Essays on Hinduism by Wendy Doniger List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index