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Hindu iconoclasts Rammohun Roy, Dayananda Sarasvati, and nineteenth-century polemics against idolatry / by Salmond, Noel A. (Noel Anthony), 1953-

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Hindu Pluralism : Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South India / by Fisher, Elaine M., 1984-

Table of Contents: “…Hindu sectarianism: difference in unity -- "Just like Kālidāsa": the making of the Smārta-Śaiva community of South India -- Public philology: constructing sectarian identities in early modern South India -- The language games of Śaiva: mapping text and space in public religious culture -- Conclusion: a prehistory of Hindu pluralism.…”
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Ancient Hindu refugees Badaga social history 1550-1975 / by Hockings, Paul

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Hindu gods in West Africa Ghanaian devotees of Shiva and Krishna / by Wuaku, Albert Kafui, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Ghana's Hindu religious landscape -- The Hindu monastery of Africa -- Domesticating Shiva worship in Ghana: rituals of the Hindu monastery of Africa -- The Sri Radha-Govinda temple tradition -- "Hinduizing" from the "top," indigenizing from "below": Krishna devotion in Ghana -- Spreading Krishna and Shiva worship in Ghana -- Why we became Hindus: conversion narratives.…”
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Hinduism and law an introduction /

Subjects: “…Hindu law.…”
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The roots of Tantra

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Temple consecration rituals in ancient India text and archaeology / by Ślączka, Anna A. (Anna Aleksandra)

Subjects: “…Hindu temples Dedication History.…”
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Changing homelands Hindu politics and the partition of India / by Nair, Neeti, 1978-

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The Hegemony of Heritage : Ritual and the Record in Stone / by Stein, Deborah L., 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the Hindu Temple in diachronic context -- Temple as geographic marker : mapping the tenth-century Sectarian landscape -- Temple as catalyst : renovation and religious merit in the field -- Temple as royal abode : the regal, the real, and the ideal in fifteenth-century Mewr -- Temple as palimpsest : icons and temples in the Sultanate era -- Temple as ritual center : tenth-century traces of ritual and the record in stone -- Temple as praxis : agency in the field in Southern Rajasthan -- Temple as legal body : aesthetics and the legislation of antiquity -- Conclusion heritage and conflict : Medieval Indian Temple as commodified.…”
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Prophets facing backward postmodern critiques of science and Hindu nationalism in India / by Nanda, Meera

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Jewels of authority women and textual tradition in Hindu India /

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Polemics and Patronage in the City of Victory : Vyasatirtha, Hindu Sectarianism, and the Sixteenth-Century Vijayanagara Court / by Stoker, Valerie, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Hindu sectarianism and the City of Victory --…”
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Hare Krishna transformed by Rochford, E. Burke, 1949-

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Seeing Krishna in America : the Hindu bhakti tradition of Vallabhacharya in India and its movement to the West / by Richardson, E. Allen, 1947-

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Dowry murder the imperial origins of a cultural crime / by Oldenburg, Veena Talwar

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The rise of Mahāsena the transformation of Skanda-Karttikeya in North India from the Kuṣāṇa to Gupta empires / by Mann, Richard D.

Subjects: “…Kārttikeya (Hindu deity) Cult India, North History.…”
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Manu's code of law a critical edition and translation of the Manava-Dharmasastra / by Manu (Lawgiver)

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The Indian diaspora in Central Asia and its trade, 1550-1900 by Levi, Scott Cameron

Subjects: “…Hindu diaspora History.…”
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The embodiment of bhakti by Pechilis, Karen

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Hinduism and the ethics of warfare in South Asia from antiquity to the present / by Roy, Kaushik, 1971-

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