The Blackwell companion to Hinduism / edited by Gavin Flood.

Originally published in hardcover: 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Establishing the boundaries / Gavin Flood -- Colonialism and the construction of Hinduism / Gauri Viswanathan -- Orientalism and Hinduism / David Smith -- Vedas and Upani.sads / Michael Witzel -- The Dharma.s.astras / Ludo Rocher -- The Sanskrit epics / John Brockington -- The Pur.a.nas / Freda Matchett -- Tamil Hindu literature / Norman Cutler -- The literature of Hinduism in Malayalam / Rich Freeman -- North Indian Hindi devotional literature / Nancy M. Martin -- The .Saiva traditions / Gavin Flood -- History of Vai.s.nava traditions: an esquisse / G.erard Colas -- The renouncer tradition / Patrick Olivelle -- The householder tradition in Hindu society / T.N. Madan -- The Teyyam tradition of Kerala / Rich Freeman -- The month of K.artik and women's ritual devotions to Krishna in Benares / Tracy Pintchman -- The science of language / Frits Staal -- Indian mathematics / Takao Hayashi -- Calendar, astrology, and astronomy / Michio Yano -- The science of medicine / Dominik Wujastyk -- Hinduism and the proper work of reason / Jonardon Ganeri -- Restoring "Hindu theology" as a category in Indian intellectual discourse / Francis Clooney -- Mantra / Andr.e Padoux -- On the relationship between caste and Hinduism / Declan Quigley -- Modernity, reform, and revival / Dermot Killingley -- Contemporary political Hinduism / C. Ram-Prasad -- The goddess and the nation: subterfuges of antiquity, the cunning of modernity / Sumathi Ramaswamy -- Gender in a devotional universe / Vasudha Narayanan.