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Elucidates the relationship between recorded history and imaginary worlds to offer an understanding of one of the world's oldest major religions. Hinduism does not lend itself easily to a strictly chronological account: many of its central texts cannot be reliably dated; its cent...

"In this magisterial volume of essays, Wendy Doniger enhances our understanding of the ancient and complex religion to which she has devoted herself for half a century. This series of interconnected essays and lectures surveys the most critically important and hotly contested iss...