TY - BOOK AU - Dalmia, Vasudha TI - Hindu Pasts: Women, Religion, Histories SN - 9788178245263 U1 - 294.50954 PY - 2015/// CY - Ranikhet PB - Permanent Black KW - Hinduism - India - History - 19th century N1 - 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 ER -