Hindu Pluralism: Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South India

Elaine M. Fisher

Open Access Published by University of California Press 2017

Hindu Pluralism

Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South India

Elaine M. Fisher

In the series South Asia Across the Disciplines

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780520966291

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In Hindu Pluralism, Elaine M. Fisher complicates the traditional scholarly narrative of the unification of Hinduism. By calling into question the colonial categories implicit in the term “sectarianism,” Fisher’s work excavates the pluralistic textures of precolonial Hinduism in the centuries prior to British intervention. Drawing on previously unpublished sources in Sanskrit, Tamil, and Telugu, Fisher argues that the performance of plural religious identities in public space in Indian early modernity paved the way for the emergence of a distinctively non-Western form of religious pluralism. This work provides a critical resource for understanding how Hinduism developed in the early modern period, a crucial era that set the tenor for religion's role in public life in India through the present day.

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Fisher Elaine M. :

Elaine M. Fisher is a Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Mysore. Starting in the fall of 2017 she will be Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	1
1. Hindu Sectarianism: Difference in Unity Open Access Download PDF	31
2. “Just Like Kālidāsa”: The Making of the Smārta-Śaiva Community of South India Open Access Download PDF	57
3. Public Philology: Constructing Sectarian Identities in Early Modern South India Open Access Download PDF	99
4. The Language Games of Śiva: Mapping Text and Space in Public Religious Culture Open Access Download PDF	137
Conclusion: A Prehistory of Hindu Pluralism Open Access Download PDF	183
Appendix Open Access Download PDF	195
Notes Open Access Download PDF	203
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	251
Index Open Access Download PDF	269

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages
- Main content: 300

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Published: February 24, 2017
ISBN: 9780520966291