She frames the debate over her book, as well as other topics when it comes to hinduism, as one between hindu rightwing activists and scholars. Fight back and reclaim wendy donigers valuable book taken away from you by a spineless publisher and the fundamentalists they made a deal with. But the buying a book online feels like something of a hollow victory if hard. She brings a multiplicity of actors and stories to the stage to show how brilliant, creativeand often subversivethinkers have kept hinduism alive and dynamic through the ages. Wendy doniger and the hindus by murali balaji the new. After youve bought this ebook, you can choose to download either the pdf version or the epub, or both. An alternative history fight back and reclaim wendy donigers valuable book taken away from you by a spineless publisher and the fundamentalists they made a deal with.
Wendy donigers the hindus is a classic example of leftliberal scholarship on hinduism. A sourcebook translated from the sanskrit by wendy doniger. I had written this for facebook, reproducing it here. On hinduism writer wendy doniger page xvii after the attacks on. The scholarship of wendy doniger, which focuses on interpretation of hindu texts through psychoanalysis, has been criticised and regarded as unreliable. The origins of evil in hindu mythology download ebook.
Through this magisterial volume which she calls the book of my books wendy doniger, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest and most original scholars of. A scholar of sanskrit and indian textual traditions, her major works include, asceticism and eroticism in the mythology of siva. Hindu and greek mythologies teem with stories of women and men who are doubled, who double themselves, who are. An alternative history after three, maybe four months. Doniger, who cannot but be aware of the political historiography of hindu nationalists, the most powerful interpreters of indian religions in both india and abroad today, also wishes to provide an. An alternative history kindle edition by doniger, wendy. Right or wrong, wendy donigers the hindus should be. Wendy doniger oflaherty born november 20, 1940 is an american indologist whose professional career has spanned five decades. Fight back and take back wendy donigers valuable book taken away from you by a spineless publisher and the. This series of interconnected essays and lectures surveys the most critically important and hotly contested issues in hinduism over 3,500 years, from the ancient time of the vedas to the present day. Find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. Wendy doniger, the 74yearold american author and research scholar in sanskrit is moreover known for the high regard she has had for indian tradition. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets.
Indeed, the shudra brahmin collapses the chasm between the subaltern and the sanskritic hindu that doniger has dug. Fight back and reclaim wendy doniger s valuable book taken away from you by a spineless publisher and the fundamentalists they made a deal with. How is wendy donigers book the hindu in its quality of. Pdf the hindus an alternative history wendy doniger. It suggests the hinduism she is chronicling is a shadow version of some other more mainstream narrative. Censorship by the batra brigade nyr, may 8, wendy doniger touches on a number of issues when it comes to the academic study of religion and larger questions of representation. The hindus an alternative history is an utterly wonderful book. As doniger points out in her statement, readers in and outside india are still free to download the hindus on kindle. Examines a rich array of hindu conceptspolytheism, death, gender, art, contemporary puritanism, nonviolence, and many more. Wendy doniger oflaherty born november 20, is an american indologist whose professional career has spanned five decades. This is not a pipe rene magritte this is not wendy donigers the.
The origins of evil in hindu mythology wendy doniger. Ive just finished wendy donigers in famous the hindus. An alternative history description dont miss this equivalent of a brilliant graduate course froma feisty and exhilarating teacher. Wendy donigers scholarship was critiqued at a roundtable panel in hawaii for two hours.
Objectionable passages from wendy donigers second book on. The freudian and marxist agendas tell us to look for the subtext, the hidden transcript, the censored text. Doniger knows her sanskrit and her vedas, but she looks hindu rituals and traditions from the point of view of women and minorities. Wendy donigers compendious account of religious traditions that constitute an ism only in the broadest possible sense begins with an account of being eggpelted by one such hardliner who. A careful definition is sharper f or donigers t urn o f phrase. The author, wendy doniger, has two doctorates, one in sanskrit and one in indian studies, so she is exceedingly well qualified to write meaningfully on this topic. 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. The narrative sweep is epicwendy doniger, with exceptional brio, tells us how the story of hinduism continues to multiply. The origins of evil in hindu mythology wendy doniger download bok. This is not wendy donigers the hindus an alternative history. Instead it completely demonizes entire hinduism with few misunderstood references. Donigers book provided me a great historical overview of hinduism.
Pdf the hindus an alternative history wendy doniger ripu. The title of donigers book an alternative history is problematic. Prasannarajan, india today anyone seriously concerned with hinduism in the contemporary world will be well advised to read, enjoy, engage and even argue with this book. With immense skill wendy doniger illuminates those moments within the hindu tradition that resist forces that would standardize or establish a canon. The real reason wendy donigers book on hindus was banned. Click download or read now button to sign up and download read hindu mythology pdf books. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the hindus.
Wendy doniger was born in new york in and trained as a dancer under shiva. Recorded in sacred sanskrit texts, including the rig veda and the mahabharata, hindu myths are thought to date back as far as the tenth century bce. Donigers second book on hinduism free download as pdf file. It is shoddy, it peddles the lies of its predecessors and tries to convert a lie into a fact by repeating it over multiple times. An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth that offers a new way of understanding one of the worlds oldest major religions, the hindus elucidates the relationship between recorded history and imaginary worlds. This work deals at length with various theories about relgion prevalent at the time when megasthenes visited india very interesting and scholarly views have been put forth regarding investigations of.
Wendy doniger is the mircea eliade distinguished service professor of the history of religions at the university of chicago and the author of over 30 books, most recently the hindus. Quoting from lgbt themes in hindu mythology about wendy. Includes more than 60 essays and lectures spanning the decadeslong career of one of hinduisms most prominent scholars. Like some of her predecessors, she appreciates the sexual freedom involved, but then she also tends to stress two aspects. Wendy doniger has 73 books on goodreads with 35307 ratings. You can see the logic of her doing it if you have ever studied. Wendy doniger dropped a bombshell on indian intellectual circles with her 2009 book the hindus an alternative history. If this is what hinduism teaches than how over 1 billion hindus are non violent, scholarly, intelligent and caring compassionate people. The earliest of the four hindu religious scriptures known as the vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive in any indoeuropean language, the rig. The washington post an engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth, the hindus offers a new way of understanding one of the worlds oldest major religions. Also by wendy doniger siva, the erotic ascetic the origins of evil in hindu mythology dreams, illusion, and other realities. The traditional principle of spatial organization of the people of india is neither racial nor casteist but cultural and territorial. Blowing up the sexuality and inconsistencies present in any ancient religious text out of all proportions, doniger published the book as if to offer an alternative history against the established wisdom of the times.
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