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Cover
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1: Introduction
Contesting the Unity of Hinduism
Vijñānabhikṣu and His Late Medieval Milieu
Doxography and Method
Premodern Philosophy in a Postcolonial World
2: An Alternative History of Vedānta
Vedānta and Orientalist Historiography
Early Bhedābheda Vedānta
Bhedābheda Vedānta After Śaṇkara
The Future of Bhedābheda Vedānta
3: Vijñānabhiksu’s “Difference and Non-difference” Vedānta
The Meaning of “Bhedābheda”
Self and Brahman as Part and Whole
Brahman’s Causality in Advaita and Bhedābheda Vedānta
Bhedābheda and the Unity of Philosophies
4: A History of God in Sāṃkhya and Yoga
Sāṃkhya: An Atheist Philosophy?
Theism in Early Sāṃkhya and the Purāṇas
Atheism and Theism in “Classical” Sāṃkhya
Sāṃkhya and Yoga
5: Reading Against the Grain of the Sāṃkhyasūtras
Atheism in the Samkhyasutras
Kapila’s “Bold Assertion” as Speech Act
Degrees of Deception in Sāṃkhya and the Purāṇas
Disproving God in the Sāṃkhyasutras
6: Yoga, Praxis, and Liberation
The Excellence of the Yogic Path
Karma and Embodied Liberation
The Unity of Yoga and Vedānta Soteriologies
7: Vedānta and Sāṃkhya in the Orientalist Imagination
Indian Philosophy and the Critique of Orientalism
Colebrooke and Gough: The Struggle for the Essence of Vedānta
Paul Deussen and the Influence of German Idealism
Richard Garbe: Sāṃkhya as the Foundation of Indian Philosophy
Orientalism and Modern Hindu Thought
8: Doxography, Classificatory Schemes, and Contested Histories
Doxography as a Genre
Early Models for Doxography in India: Cāttanār and Bhāviveka
Haribhadra, Jainism, and the Six Systems
Mādhava and the Influence of Advaita Doxography
Madhusūdana Sarasvatī Foreignness and the Philosophical Other
9: Affirmers (Āstikas) and Deniers (Nāstikas) in Indian History
Toward a Comparative Heresiology
The Meaning of Āstika and Nāstika
Perspectives from the Jainas, Buddhists, and Grammarians
Beyond Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy
Āstika and Nāstika in the Late Medieval Period
10: Hindu Unity and the Non-hindu Other
Inclusivism and Hindu Toleration
Decoding Late Medieval Doxography
The Absence of Islam
Hinduism: a Modern invention?
Communalism, Universalism, and Hindu Identity
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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