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

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 ce...

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Main Author: Fisher, Elaine (auth)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Oakland, California University of California Press 2017
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