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Hindu myth, Hindu history, religion, art, and politics
- Title
- Hindu myth, Hindu history, religion, art, and politics / Heinrich von Stietencron.
- Author
- Stietencron, Heinrich von.
- Publication
- Delhi : Permanant Black ; Bangalore : Distributed by Orient Longman, c.2005.
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- Description
- 327 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-318) and index.
- Language (note)
- Translated from German.
- Contents
- Political aspects of Indian religious art -- Calculating religious decay: the Kaliyuga in India -- Orthodox attitudes towards temple service and image worship in ancient India -- The Purǎ̄ṇic genealogies and the date of the Buddha -- Bhairava: facets of a Hindu deity -- The goddess Durgǎ̄ Mahiṣǎ̄suramardinǐ̄: myth, representation and historical role in the Hinduization of India -- Planned syncretism: emperor Akbar's religious policy -- The preconditions of western research on Hinduism and their consequences -- Hinduism: on the proper use of a deceptive term -- Religious configurations in pre-Muslim India.
- ISBN
- 8178241226
- 9788178241227
- LCCN
- 2005388596
- OCLC
- ocm61460620
- SCSB-5311125
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries