Digging Wells While Houses Burn?: Writing Histories of Hinduism in a Time of Identity Politics

Over the past fifty years, a number of approaches to the recovery of the multiple pasts of Hinduism have held the field. these include that of the discipline of History of religions as it is constituted in north america as well as those of the Hindu nationalists, the colonial and post-colonial histo...

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Main Author: White, David Gordon 1953- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Wiley 2006
In: History and theory
Year: 2006, Volume: 45, Issue: 4, Pages: 104-131
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