TY - BOOK AU - Doniger, Wendy TI - The Hindus: An Alternative History SN - 9789385288661 U1 - 294.509 PY - 2015/// CY - New Delhi PB - Speaking Tiger Publishing Pvt. Ltd. KW - Hindus - History KW - Women in Hinduism N1 - Preface: The man or the rabbit in the moon 1. Introduction: Working with available light 2. Time and space in India: 50 million to 50,000 BCE 3. Civilization in the Indus Valley: 50,000 to 1500 BCE 4. Between the ruins and the text: 2000 to 1500 BCE 5. Humans, animals, and gods in the Rig Veda: 1500 to 1000 BCE 6. Sacrifice in the Brahmanas: 800 to 500 BCE 7. Renunciation in the Upanishads: 600 to 200 BCE 8. The three (or is it four?) aims of life in the Hindu imaginary 9. Women and ogresses in the Ramayana: 400 BCE to 200 CE 10. Violence in the Mahabharata: 300 BCE to 300 CE 11. Dharma in the Mahabharata: 300 BCE to 300 CE 12. Escape clauses in the Shastras: 100 BCE to 400 CE 13. Bhakti in South India: 100 BCE to 900 CE 14. Goddesses and gods in the early Puranas: 300 to 600 CE 15. Sects and sex in the Tantric Puranas and the Tantras: 600 to 900 CE 16. Fusion and rivalry under the Delhi sultanate: 650 to 1500 CE 17. Avatar and accidental grace in the later Puranas: 800 to 1500 CE 18. Philosophical feuds in South India and Kashmir: 800 to 1300 CE 19. Dialogue and tolerance under the Mughals: 1500 to 1700 CE 20. Hinduism under the Mughals: 1500 to 1700 CE 21. Caste, class, and conversion under the British Raj: 1600 to 1900 CE 22. Suttee and reform in the twilight of the Raj: 1800 to 1947 CE 23. Hindus in America: 1900- 24. The past in the present: 1950- 25. Inconclusion, or the abuse of history ER -