The King Must Protect the Difference: The Juridical Foundations of Tantric Knowledge

Drawing upon inscriptional, art historical, as well as largely unstudied and unpublished textual evidence, this paper examines the conceptualization of religious diversity in the Medieval Deccan prior to the Islamic invasions. What our archive suggests, somewhat counterintuitively, is that from the...

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Main Author: Schwartz, Jason (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2018]
In: Religions
Year: 2018, Volume: 9, Issue: 4, Pages: 1-25
Further subjects:B Bhairava
B Tantra
B Legal pluralism
B Religious Tolerance
B Hindu Law
B Feudalism
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