Hindu Pasts: Women, Religion, Histories

Part I. Colonial Knowledge-Formation
1. Friedrich Max Mullen Appropriations of the Vedic Past
2. Sanskrit Scholars and Pandits of the Old School: The Benares Sanskrit College and the Constitution of Authority in the Late Nineteenth Century
3. Sati as a Religious Rite: Parliamentary Papers on Widow Immolation
4. Mosques, Temples, and Fields of Disputation in a Late-Eighteenth-Century Chronicle
5. Vernacular Histories in Late-Nineteenth-Century Banaras: Folklore, Puranas, and the New Antiquarianism
Part II. Vaishnava Renewals c. 1600
1900
6. Forging Community: The Guru in a Seventeenth-Century Vaishnava Hagiography
7. Women, Duty, and Sanctified Space in a Vaishnava Hagiography of the Seventeenth Century
8. The Sixth Gaddi of the Vallabha Sampraday: Narrative Structure and Authority in a Varta of the Nineteenth Century
9. The Modernity of Tradition: Harishchandra of Banaras and the Defence of Hindu Dharma
Part III. The Hindi Novel: Nineteenth-Century Beginnings
10. A Novel Moment in Hindi: Pariksha Guru
11. Generic Questions: Bharatendu Harishchandra and Women's Issues
12. Pilgrimage, Fairs, and the Secularization of Space in Modern Hindi Narrative Discourses
13. The Locations of Hindi.