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

AUTHOR- Elaine M. Fisher

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Hindu Pluralism

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  • Year – 2018
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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 Drawing on previously unpublished sources in Sanskrit, Tamil, and Telugu, Fisher argues that the performance of plural religious identities in public space in Indian early modernity paved the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.

Elaine M. Fisher is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University.

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 Drawing on previously unpublished sources in Sanskrit, Tamil, and Telugu, Fisher argues that the performance of plural religious identities in public space in Indian early modernity paved the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.

Elaine M. Fisher is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Hindu Pluralism Acknowledgments Vii-Ix
Introduction 1-30
Hindu Sectarianism: Difference In Unity 31-56
“Just Like Kalidasa”: The Making Of The Smarta-Saiva Community Of South India 57-98
Public Philology: Constructing Sectarian Identities In Early Modern South India 99-136
The Language Games Of Siva: Mapping Text And Space In Public Religious Culture 137-182
Conclusion: A Prehistory Of Hindu Pluralism 183-194
Appendix 195-201
Notes 203-250
Bibliography 251-267
Index 269-285