Hindu Pasts
Women, Religion, Histories
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Albany, NY:State University of New York Press, September2017.390 pages.$90.00.Hardcover.ISBN9781438468051.For other formats: Link to Publisher's Website.
Review by Arpita Mitra forthcoming.
Description
Challenges the monolithic view of Hindusim in the nineteenth century, and instead offers a vision of India that contains a rich multiplicity of Hinduisms, women’s stories, and cultural histories.
In her introduction to Hindu Pasts—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 body 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.
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