The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism

physicians, who rank themselves next to Brahmans, and Ka ̄yasthas, tradition- ally clerks, who claim Ks.atriya origin (Killingle ...

or Veda ̄ntists (Killingley 1993: 103), since he based his teachings on Advaita Veda ̄nta, often called simply Veda ̄nta. Rammoh ...

Here he found insuperable difficulties. In the modern situation Vedic texts were becoming accessible, even to non-Hindus, throug ...

persons. He was such a person; so too were his hearers, if they would open them- selves to God’s inspiration as he exhorted them ...

Social Reform One of the points which distinguished the Bra ̄hmo Sama ̄j of India from the A ̄di Bra ̄hmo Sama ̄j, and in turn d ...

therefore, they do so in theoretical terms which may not be easily related to the realities of caste in the region where they li ...

(1820–91), a pan.d.it who was a close associate of Debendrana ̄th Tagore. Like Rammohun’s against sahamaran.a, his arguments wer ...

All that you mean by your social reform is either widow remarriage, or female emancipation, or something of that sort... And aga ...

champion of the indigenous non-Brahman against the alien Brahman, and his role as protector was now taken by the British. Phule ...

Banerjea, Krishna Mohan. 1833. A Review of the Moonduk Oopunishad, translated into English by Ram Mohun Roy; to which is prefixe ...

——. 1979. The Bra ̄hmo Sama ̄j and the Shaping of the Modern Indian Mind.Princeton: Princeton University Press. Laird, M. A. 197 ...

CHAPTER 25 Contemporary Political Hinduism C. Ram-Prasad The very idea of “political Hinduism” raises questions generally about ...

The Formulation of “Hinduness”: Its Political and Cultural Consequences While issues of religion and culture are deeply implicat ...

Savarkar is keenly aware of irreducible diversity, be it in conceptions of sacred geography, racial intermingling, or religious ...

terrorist techniques before joining the Congress. Hedgewar left the Congress convinced of the inefficacy of Gandhi’s peaceful “n ...

focused on physicality, militancy, asceticism, and sectarian membership, the RSS provided its own version of the ritually mediat ...

Hindu Nationalism and the Politics of Independent India Partition and its aftermath The political impact of the growth of the RS ...

opposition to Partition to harmony between India and Pakistan and between the religious communities within India. The RSS and th ...

cal identity. This difficulty was compounded by the fact that the other major opposition groups, the Socialists and the Communis ...

confined to necessary and strategic engagement with specific issues and the occasional electoral success. Upadhyaya developed hi ...