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Murray, Chris. "Coleridge, Isherwood and Hindu Light." Romanticism 22, no. 3 (2016): 269–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/rom.2016.0288.

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This essay explores light, as conceived in Hinduism, as an intellectual tool used to mediate the contrary impulses of body and soul. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Christopher Isherwood addressed this philosophical quandary by reference to the light-based cosmology of Bhagavad Gita. They did so by opposite means: Coleridge's search for the Hindu light was primarily based on reading, while Isherwood adopted self-cultivation practices. In ‘Dejection: An Ode’, the Indian idea of light allows Coleridge to imagine the resolution of his love for Sara Hutchinson. By contrast, Isherwood devoted himself t
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Clooney, Francis X. "Extending the Canon: Some Implications of a Hindu Argument about Scripture." Harvard Theological Review 85, no. 2 (1992): 197–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0017816000028856.

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Can the sacred texts of non-Christian religious traditions be revelatory for Christians in a fashion that is more than vague and merely theoretical? This question is central within the larger project of understanding the significance of the various world religions for Christians, and the effort to answer it must proceed according to three specific tasks.First, it is necessary to describe the ways in which the Christian tradition predisposes and constrains Christian believers on the issue of whether non-Christian texts can be revelatory words of God for non-Christians, for Christians, or for bo
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D'Sa, Francis X. "Lokasangraha: The Welfare of the Whole World A Hindu Vision of a World Order." Jnanadeepa: Pune Journal of Religious Studies Jan 1999, no. 2/1 (1999): 47–59. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4255733.

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The phenomenon of Hindutva might give the impression that it belongs to the canonical part of the Hindu traditions. Not only does it not belong there; even the word Hindu finds no place there. By no stretch of the imagination can they be understood as be­ longing to the same category. Whereas Hindu has functioned as a Sangam for a class of traditions that share in some common or similar beliefs, doctrines, attitudes and values, Hindutva is a la­ bel that stands for a communalistic, fascistic and fundamentalistic movement that uses religion, religious deities, customs, and places appare
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Solanki, Tanvi. "The Multisensorial Ramayana and Its Migrant Afterlife in the Making of German Romanticism and Narendra Modi’s India." Comparative Literature 77, no. 2 (2025): 188–212. https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-11626857.

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Abstract This article traces the migration of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German philologists and writers’ textually mediated mythical images of India and the Sanskrit canon, particularly the Ramayana. Stories about Ram’s ultimate authority each have their own history as they migrate across different languages, communities, and media. While the migration of the story is textual for the Europeans, the article will show how it migrates across very sensory regimes for the Indians, most recently in Narendra Modi’s Ram Temple project. The German Romantics’ work cannot be isolated in Ger
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Stoker, Valerie. "CONCEIVING THE CANON IN DVAITA VEDANTA: MADHVA'S DOCTRINE OF "ALL SACRED LORE"." Numen 51, no. 1 (2004): 47–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852704773558223.

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AbstractThe past decade has witnessed a growing scholarly interest in the Veda's status as a canon for precolonial, Brahminical Hinduism. In an effort to refute the notion that Hinduism is a purely Orientalist construct, several scholars have attempted to locate an indigenous set of shared religious beliefs in Brahmins' consistent reference to the Veda as the standard for religious orthodoxy. Yet even as such arguments posit the Veda as a unifying feature for the diverse Hindu tradition, their very emphasis on the Veda's role as a canon reveals a plurality of understandings of the Veda's natur
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Tyulina, Elena V. "REVIEW OF: YE. G. VYRSHCHIKOV “CITY — VILLAGE — FOREST: THE WORLD OF THE CREATORS OF THE PALI CANON AND THEIR CONTEMPORARIES”." Journal of the Institute of Oriental Studies RAS, no. 4 (14) (2020): 313–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.31696/2618-7302-2020-4-313-317.

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Following is a review оf the monograph published in 2019 by Yevgeniy G. Vyrshchikov ‘City — Village — Forest: The World of the Creators of the Pali Canon and Their Contemporaries’, which was published in 2019 by the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (editors: V. V. Vertogradova and V. P. Androsov). This work is a cultural study of the so called Pali Canon, or Tipitaka — the early Buddhist Canon of the Theravada school. It is mainly devoted to ideas about space and related views on the structure of the world and society. To understand the cultural context
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Singh, Poonam. "The Advent of Ambedkar in the Sphere of Indian Women Question." CASTE / A Global Journal on Social Exclusion 1, no. 2 (2020): 17–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.26812/caste.v1i2.182.

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The paper attempts to project Bhim Rao Ambedkar as one of the foremost liberal feminists who advocated for Hindu women’s legal rights through the constitutional provisions listed in the Hindu Code Bill. He proposed four major stipulations, “one change is that, the widow, the daughter, the widow of predeceased-son. All are given the same rank as the son in the matter of inheritance. In addition to that, the daughter is also given a share in her father’s property: her share is prescribed as half of that of the son.”[1] To contemplate the predicament and marginalized position of Indian women, Amb
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Forberg, Corinna, and Pauline Lunsingh Scheurleer. "How to Succeed in Marketing Something Repulsive: A Recently Discovered Drawing of a Yogi by Willem Schellinks (1623– 1678)." Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 81, no. 3 (2018): 356–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zkg-2018-0026.

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Abstract In seventeenth-century Dutch paintings, ascetics are a rare and remarkable subject, even more so when they are Hindu ascetics. The drawing of a yogi created by Rembrandt’s contemporary Willem Schellinks (1623– 1678) is unique for this reason. This article investigates the various possible sources of Schellinks’ drawing – an eyewitness report, the many travel accounts on South Asia, Indian miniatures, or the like – and discusses its place between the European tradition of exoticism and the iconography of saints, as well as its position in Schellinks’ own oeuvre. Far from resorting to e
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Aggarwal, Neil Krishan. "The Sikh Foundations of Ayurveda." Asian Medicine 4, no. 2 (2008): 263–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157342009x12526658783457.

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AbstractThis paper explores how Sikh scriptures establish a unique claim to Ayurvedic knowledge. After considering Ayurvedic creation myths in the classical Sanskrit canon, passages from Sikh liturgical texts are presented to show how Ayurveda is refashioned to meet the exigencies of Sikh theology. The Sikh texts are then analysed through their relationship with general Puranic literatures and the historical context of Hindu-Sikh relations. Finally, the Indian government’s current propagation of Ayurveda is scrutinised to demonstrate its affiliation with one particular religion to the possible
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Prashami, Pandey. "Debunking the Myth: Hinduism's Firm Stand Against Caste Discrimination." Debunking the Myth: Hinduism's Firm Stand Against Caste Discrimination 9, no. 1 (2024): 431–43. https://doi.org/10.36993/ RJOE.2024.9.1.443.

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In India, Caste is an inescapable aspect of one's identity, akin to a shadow that never leaves. Regardless of a person's level of education or talent, their Caste continues to be the primary means of identification. While the caste system has intertwined with Hinduism in various ways throughout history, it is essential to distinguish between the two. Hinduism, as a dynamic and evolving religion, has harbored movements and philosophies that challenge the caste system. There is no strong correlation between Hinduism and the caste system, neither spatially
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Hindu Canon"

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Rohatgi, Rashi. "Fighting cane and canon : reading Abhimanyu Unnuth's Hindi poetry in and outside of literary Mauritius." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2012. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/16627/.

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Fighting Cane and Canon: Reading Abhimanyu Unnuth's Hindi Poetry In and Outside of Literary Mauritius interrogates the development and persistence of Hindi poetry in Mauritius with a focus on the early poetry of Abhimanyu Unnuth. His second work, The Teeth of the Cactus, brings together questions about the value of history, of relationships forged by labour, and of spirituality in a trenchant examination of a postcolonial people choosing to pursue prosperity in an age of globalization. It captures a distinct point of view - Unnuth's connection to the Hindi language is an unusual reaction to th
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Books on the topic "Hindu Canon"

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Patton, Laurie L. Authority, Anxiety, and Canon: Essays in Vedic Interpretation (S U N Y Series in Hindu Studies). State University of New York Press, 1994.

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Patton, Laurie L. Authority, Anxiety, and Canon: Essays in Vedic Interpretation (S U N Y Series in Hindu Studies). State University of New York Press, 1994.

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Tripathi, Mrityunjay, and Shad Naved. Hindi Canon: Intellectuals, Processes, Criticism. Tulika Print Communication Services Pvt., Limited, 2018.

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Shukla, D. N. Vastu-Sastra: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting. Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 2003.

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Imagining a Postcolonial Nation. Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt. Ltd, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9789356400252.

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This book explores narratives of nationalism in the Hindi novel (1940s–80s), engaging with mainstream, populist, political conceptualisation of a postcolonial nation and local, cultural, often marginalised fictional parallels and alternatives to it. Analysing processes of nation-formation and nationalism(s) via experiments with the novel form and versions of realism in Hindi, conversations between the political and the cultural, rural/borders and the urban/central spaces, individual subjectivity and social structures, and the challenges Hindi novels’ internal linguistic diversity poses to form
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Fighting cane and canon: Abhimanyu Unnuth and the case of world literature in Mauritius. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2014.

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Nijhawan, Shobna. Hindi Publishing in Colonial Lucknow: Gender, Genre, and Visuality in the Creation of a Literary 'Canon'. Oxford University Press, 2019.

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Rossoukh, Ramyar D., and Steven C. Caton, eds. Anthropology, Film Industries, Modularity. Duke University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478022190.

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From Bangladesh and Hong Kong to Iran and South Africa, film industries around the world are rapidly growing at a time when new digital technologies are fundamentally changing how films are made and viewed. Larger film industries like Bollywood and Nollywood aim to attain Hollywood's audience and profitability, while smaller, less commercial, and often state-funded enterprises support various cultural and political projects. The contributors to Anthropology, Film Industries, Modularity take an ethnographic and comparative approach to capturing the diversity and growth of global film industries
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Book chapters on the topic "Hindu Canon"

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Nijhawan, Shobna. "‘Canon’ Formation (Part II)." In Hindi Publishing in Colonial Lucknow. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199488391.003.0005.

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Through the medium of print, processes of standardization, indigenization, canonization, and scientification not only of Hindi as the proposed national language, but also of Hindu national culture become visible in the early decades of the twentieth century. This chapter contextualizes such processes through a detailed analysis of Sudhā’s thematic columns. Processes of the nationalization of literature in particular are discussed through a micro-perspective on to Sudhā as it created its very own archives of knowledge of what it considered to be the national arts, medicine and science, music, news, and formerly orally transmitted knowledge on domesticity, homespun remedies, health, cooking, and child-rearing. Visually, women featured centrally in the column section of the periodical. Even though they were for the most part featured as recipients of knowledge, they were also imagined as women taking active roles in the construction of this supposedly canonical knowledge.
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Allen, Michael S. "Conclusion." In The Ocean of Inquiry. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197638958.003.0007.

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This concluding chapter argues for the relevance of Indian scholasticism to the emergence of modern Hinduism. The chapter begins with a summary of the “construction of Hinduism” debate, before turning to a study of the final chapter of The Ocean of Inquiry, in which Niścaldās presents a synthesis of various philosophical schools and theological sects typically identified as “Hindu,” with Vedānta at their summit. It is argued that this presentation, which might seem distinctively modern, can in fact be traced to the work of earlier, premodern thinkers. The chapter suggests that the scholastic method itself—with its aims of synthesizing, harmonizing, and removing doubts—contributed to the gradual systematization of an expanded Vedic canon. The unification of traditions that would later come to be labeled as “Hindu” can thus be understood, at least in part, as a natural result of the kind of inquiry embodied in Niścaldās’s magnum opus.
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Prentiss, Karen Pechilis. "Introduction." In The Embodiment of Bhakti. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195128130.003.0001.

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Abstract On the face of it, to students of Indian culture, bhakti needs no introduction. Celebrated as an Indian version of Protestant Christianity by nineteenth-century missionaries and scholars, immortalized in the Bhagavad Gītā, promoted as “India’s Bible” by orientalists and now reclaimed as such by Hindu immigrants in Western countries, and praised by poet-saints in all the major languages of India, bhakti became firmly established in the canon of scholarship on Indian religions. There had been a consensus on what bhakti means, which contributed to its inclusion in the canon of scholarship. Revealing orientalist scholars’ approval of this religious path, by the turn of this century bhakti had come to be defined as “devotion to a personal deity” in English-language scholarship, a definition still influential today. For orientalist scholars such as H. H. Wilson, M. Monier-Williams, and G. A. Grierson, bhakti was a monotheistic reform movement, the first real instance of monotheism in India. By this assertion, they challenged the views of F. Max Muller, regarded as a founder of the discipline called Religionswissenschaft, or the history of religions; he and his followers deemed the Sanskrit Vedas as India’s true and original religion. In Max Muller’s view, the scholars of bhakti were studying the compromise of history; in their own view, they were identifying the jewel in the crown of India’s living religious traditions.
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Nijhawan, Shobna. "‘Canon’ Formation (Part I)." In Hindi Publishing in Colonial Lucknow. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199488391.003.0004.

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The proprietor of Gaṅgā Pustak Mālā relied on an impressive network of scholar-writers, journalists, and educationalists who were involved with the publishing house and the periodical. Their contributions to Sudhā are introduced in Chapter 3 with the intention to demonstrate what in the eyes of the editors of Sudhā and the Hindi public constituted useful knowledge for the middle-class reader. Poetry, fiction, and prose essays were three major publication genres of the time, which underwent transformations while being written in. The discussion of these genres takes place in the context of the developments within the pages of Sudhā, the publishing house, and the Hindi literary sphere that witnessed a number of literary movements in the early twentieth century.
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Nijhawan, Shobna. "Introduction." In Hindi Publishing in Colonial Lucknow. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199488391.003.0001.

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This chapter discusses new approaches to the study of periodicals that include a consideration of paratexts, text–image relationships as well as horizontal and vertical ways of reading. It suggests that the periodical acts as both a source (from where to gather primary sources) and as a genre in its own right. Other themes addressed in the introduction are the commercialization of print in colonial India, the designation and creation of poetic and prose genres and ‘canons’ in the Hindi periodical Sudhā as well as the creation of specifically gendered spaces within a mainstream Hindi literary periodical. The introduction concludes with an overview of primary sources consulted in this monograph as well as a chapter overview.
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Yaden, David B., and Andrew B. Newberg. "The Varieties: The Classic Text and Its Impact." In The Varieties of Spiritual Experience. Oxford University PressNew York, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190665678.003.0003.

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Abstract The Varieties of Religious Experience is a special book. Over the years, it has become William James’s most well-known work and has quietly cemented itself into the Western Canon. In it, James aimed to shift focus away from religious beliefs and theological doctrines and to instead examine religious experience. In contemporary psychological research, it is now taken for granted that religion and spiritualty can be broken down into different elements. This chapter describes how spiritual experience can be studied with some degree of independence from beliefs, and that this is important—because atheists, agnostics, the “spiritual but not religious,” as well as Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and Muslims (and many others) all report spiritual experiences.
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Van Dyke, Paul A. "Ambiguous Faces of the Canton Trade." In The Private Side of the Canton Trade, 1700-1840. Hong Kong University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888390939.003.0003.

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Because most historians of the Canton Trade have focused on Europeans and Americans, private Asian traders, as well as Armenians, Turks, and Jews, have been marginalized and left out of the conversation. As a result, the picture that has been presented, of Europeans and Americans dominating the private trade, is much distorted. It is very likely that a good percentage of the private ships were financed by persons from India, Southeast Asia and/or overseas Chinese. Given that the Chinese authorities opened the trade to non-Chinese regardless of nationality (except Japanese and Russians), and guaranteed them access to the market in Canton, this should not be surprising.In fact, many of the ships that called at Canton were actually commissioned by Muslims, Hindus, Parsees, Greeks, Jews, Armenians, and Southeast Asians under cover of a European flag. A Jewish trader living in Baghdad might travel on a ship captained by an Englishman. A ship and her cargo might both be owned by Parsees or Armenians but fly a British flag. A Portuguese vessel based in Macau or a Chinese junk based in Guangzhou might actually be commissioned by the Dutch. But because of the scarcity of surviving records from these individuals and the tendency to identify vessels by their flags, the British and Americans have appeared as the dominant private traders at Canton in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Further studies will undoubtedly provide a fuller picture of their importance to the Canton Trade.
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Neo, Jaclyn L. "Freedom of Religion." In Global Canons in an Age of Contestation. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780191956942.003.0017.

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Abstract As one of the early antecedents of modern human rights, the right to religious freedom is today among the most commonly found guarantees in modern constitutional documents, as well as in international and regional human rights documents. Its ubiquity belies a persistent contestation as to its scope, nature, and limits, which, to some extent, have become proxies for ideological struggles concerning the normativity of constitutionalism, between liberal and non-liberal constitutionalism, between secular constitutionalism and religious (even theocratic) constitutionalism, and between separationist secularism and non-separationist secularism, set within a range of different state–religion constitutional arrangements. This chapter embarks on the exercise of identifying canons in the field of religious freedom within constitutional law and human rights law with a critical lens. It examines evidence of the canonical (and anti-canonical) status of four cases, their legacy, and criticism, applying the criteria of ‘paradigmatic shifts’, i.e. of cases that have served as turning points within the field. The first two cases are both from the Global North; West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette and Kokkinakis v. Greece are landmark cases affirming that religious freedom protects religious minorities and therefore serves to promote social/religious plurality and secularism. The next two cases are from the Global South: Commissioner, Hindu Religious Endowments, Madras v. Sri Lakshmindra Thirtha Swamiar of Sri Shirur Mutt and Lina Joy v. Majlis Agama Islam Wilayah both challenge a separationist perspective of religious freedom, reflecting a judicial approach that is far more interventionist in state–religion relations.
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Sauer, Elizabeth. "Negotiating Nonconformity." In The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature. Oxford University Press, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192866035.013.28.

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Abstract The contests over what Henry Maurice would call ‘the Incessant working of a Turbulant [sic] Spirit’—in a tract denigrating dissenters for rendering faction and pleas for conscience interchangeable—were waged in heated animadversions, ‘the workhorse genre’ of the Restoration era. Largely representing pro-establishment court culture and conformity in theology and poetics, the traditional canon of Restoration literature warrants expansion through the inclusion of controversialist works by conformists and nonconformists. Among those who debated the terms of comprehension, indifferentism, and the dynamics of aesthetics, religion, and politics were Hales, Milton, Parker, Marvell, Stillingfleet, Palmer, Penn, and Stubbe. Also considered here is the production history of Dryden’s The Hind and the Panther, which exposes a nation divided along the lines of nonconformity, comprehension, and Catholicism. Animadversive writings, notably those on nonconformity, transprose the Restoration era and present the schismatic period in its full ecclesiastical, rhetorical, and stylistic complexity.
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Martin, Nancy M. "History, Heroism, and the Politics of Identity." In Mirabai. Oxford University PressNew York, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195153897.003.0004.

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Abstract In the contested terrain of colonial India, Mirabai would be drawn into debates about the status of women and nationalist constructions of a heroic Indian identity and a new patriarchy. This chapter argues that the allegedly historical biographies and nationalist tales of the saint that emerge during last decade of nineteenth century profoundly reflect this ongoing project and must be read as such, though they have been widely disseminated in scholarly and popular literature alike. The saint drew the attention of British officer scholars as a romantic model for beleaguered Indian womanhood, in line with gendered rhetorical justifications for colonial rule. Among elite Indian nationalists, she was lauded as a model for women’s education and strength and as the premiere premodern poetess in an emerging Hindi literary canon. Yet in many characterizations of the saint, she was far from the ideal of the new patriarchy. This chapter details how she was made over into a proper wife by Bengali and Gujarati nationalists and rajput historians relying selectively on the scant historical documentation available, hagiographic accounts, the tales of other legendary rajput and brahman heroines, and their own sense of how she would or should have behaved. By the end of the century a new line of narrative emerges with Mirabai transformed into a saintly cultural heroine, thoroughly Indian and rajput, both traditional and modern, and an inspirational model for women in the eyes of these elite male writers.
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