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An Alternative History
Penguin
December 2010
On Sale: November 30, 2010
800 pages
ISBN: 014311669X
EAN: 9780143116691
Kindle: B001TSZ688
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Non-Fiction History
"Don't miss this equivalent of a brilliant graduate
course froma feisty and exhilarating teacher."
-The
Washington Post
An engrossing and
definitive narrative account of history and myth, The
Hindus offers a new way of understanding one of the
world's oldest major religions. Hinduism does not lend
itself easily to a strictly chronological account. Many of
its central texts cannot be reliably dated within a century;
its central tenets arise at particular moments in Indian
history and often differ according to gender or caste; and
the differences between groups of Hindus far outnumber the
commonalities. Yet the greatness of Hinduism lies precisely
in many of these idiosyncratic qualities that continues to
inspire debate today. This groundbreaking work elucidates
the relationship between recorded history and imaginary
worlds, the inner life and the social history of Hindus.
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