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100			_aDalmia, Vasudha _914522
245			_aHindu Pasts: Women, Religion, Histories
260			_aRanikhet _bPermanent Black _c2015
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500			_aIn her Introduction to this book—which showcases her work as a scholar of social, literary, and religious history—Vasudha Dalmia outlines the central ideas which thread her writings: first, to understand in greater historical depth the relationship between language, religion, and society in India, as well as the ever-changing role of its religious and social institutions; second, to recognize that the Hindu tradition, which colonials and nationalists tend to see as monolithic, is in fact a multiplicity of distinct and semi-autonomous strands.
600			_aHumanities and Social Science _99370
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