The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism

Inden’s polemic leads him to distort Renou’s statements. When Renou speaks of the Indian mind, he means the Indian mind as expre ...

the anger of a Hebrew prophet, wanting to whip the Hindus, especially the priests, from the stinking lairs that were their templ ...

were spoken, and no attempt was made to practise talking them or to acquire any practical familiarity with them. If at any time ...

ownership of land in India, though his motive was primarily antipathy to the British. It is interesting to note a lack of such a ...

historians, but the historians themselves were rejected as biased and motivated” (Kejariwal 1988: 233). The British Empire shoul ...

theological opposition to the theory of Pre-adamite man published by his friend La Peyrère nine years earlier. Bernier’s concept ...

an ideal of rule” (Geddes 1962: 95). The British civil servant, incredible as it seems now, believed that he was infallible and ...

natural tendency of all peoples to believe themselves and their ways the best, has one supremely bad quality. This is ranking, f ...

use of philological terms such as grammar, syntax, and poetics in sociological discourse. Vinay Lal declares that “the trope of ...

minate. Kanhayalal Gauba’s 1930 study of native princes refers to Bismarck’s distinction of male and female European nations. Fo ...

Far from the jungle of Hinduism being seen as feminine, Eliot in the passage cited by Inden explicitly says that “men and women ...

Then come the tribals. Inden says it is on to the tribals that the Jungians – Inden’s term for scholars interested in Indian myt ...

Ka ̄dambarı ̄, gives a well known portrayal of a Durga ̄ shrine in the depths of the Vindhya forest, manned by a Dravidian pries ...

apparently successful deconstruction overlooks is what is in fact blindingly obvious. In Orientalism in its original meaning was ...

Garbe, Richard. 1925: Indische Reiseskizzen, 2nd ed. MuenchenNeubiberg: Oskar Schloss. Gauba, Kanhayalal. 1930: H. H. Or the Pat ...

and Southeast Asia,” in J. E. M. Houben, ed., Ideology and Status of Sanskrit: Contribu- tions to the History of the Sanskrit La ...

PA R T I I Text and Tradition The Sanskrit Textual Traditions 67 3 Vedas and Upanis.ads 68 Michael Witzel 4 The Dharmas ́a ̄stra ...

The Sanskrit Textual Traditions ...

CHAPTER 3 Vedas and Upanis.ads Michael Witzel Veda means “(sacred) knowledge” (cf. Greek (w)oida, English wit, witness, Germanwi ...

(tonal) accent (as in old Greek or in Japanese) has been preserved up to the present. On the other hand, the Vedas have been wri ...