Description: Hindu PluralismReligion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South India Author(s): Elaine M. Fisher Format: Paperback Publisher: University of California Press, United States Imprint: University of California Press ISBN-13: 9780520293014, 978-0520293014 Synopsis A free ---- version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit [url] to learn more. 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 Drawing on previously unpublished sources in Sanskrit, Tamil, and Telugu, Fisher argues that the performance of plural religious identities in public space in Indian early modernity paved the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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Book Title: Hindu Pluralism
Number of Pages: 300 Pages
Publication Name: Hindu Pluralism: Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South India
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Item Height: 229 mm
Subject: History
Publication Year: 2017
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 408 g
Author: Elaine M. Fisher
Item Width: 152 mm
Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines
Format: Paperback
