LEADER 03990nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910791564903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-87241-9 010 $a9786612872419 010 $a0-231-52642-3 024 7 $a10.7312/nich14986 035 $a(CKB)2560000000055504 035 $a(EBL)908796 035 $a(OCoLC)793166813 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000443791 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12191145 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000443791 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10461828 035 $a(PQKB)11720411 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908796 035 $a(DE-B1597)459169 035 $a(OCoLC)687689597 035 $a(OCoLC)979832063 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231526425 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908796 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10433299 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL287241 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000055504 100 $a20100701d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aUnifying Hinduism$b[electronic resource] $ephilosophy and identity in Indian intellectual history /$fAndrew J. Nicholson 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (281 p.) 225 1 $aSouth Asia across the disciplines 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-14986-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tABBREVIATIONS -- $t1. INTRODUCTION -- $t2. AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF VED?NTA -- $t3. VIJŃ?NABHIK?U'S "DIFFERENCE AND NON-DIFFERENCE" VED?NTA -- $t4. A HISTORY OF GOD IN S??KHYA AND YOGA -- $t5. READING AGAINST THE GRAIN OF THE S??KHYAS?TRAS -- $t6. YOGA, PRAXIS, AND LIBERATION -- $t7. VED?NTA AND S??KHYA IN THE ORIENTALIST IMAGINATION -- $t8. DOXOGRAPHY, CLASSIFICATORY SCHEMES, AND CONTESTED HISTORIES -- $t9. AFFIRMERS (?STIKAS) AND DENIERS (N?STIKAS) IN INDIAN HISTORY -- $t10. HINDU UNITY AND THE NON-HINDU OTHER -- $tNOTES -- $tBIBLIOGRAPHY -- $tINDEX 330 $aSome postcolonial theorists argue that the idea of a single system of belief known as "Hinduism" is a creation of nineteenth-century British imperialists. Andrew J. Nicholson introduces another perspective: although a unified Hindu identity is not as ancient as some Hindus claim, it has its roots in innovations within South Asian philosophy from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. During this time, thinkers treated the philosophies of Vedanta, Samkhya, and Yoga, along with the worshippers of Visnu, Siva, and Sakti, as belonging to a single system of belief and practice. Instead of seeing such groups as separate and contradictory, they re-envisioned them as separate rivers leading to the ocean of Brahman, the ultimate reality.Drawing on the writings of philosophers from late medieval and early modern traditions, including Vijnanabhiksu, Madhava, and Madhusudana Sarasvati, Nicholson shows how influential thinkers portrayed Vedanta philosophy as the ultimate unifier of diverse belief systems. This project paved the way for the work of later Hindu reformers, such as Vivekananda, Radhakrishnan, and Gandhi, whose teachings promoted the notion that all world religions belong to a single spiritual unity. In his study, Nicholson also critiques the way in which Eurocentric concepts—like monism and dualism, idealism and realism, theism and atheism, and orthodoxy and heterodoxy—have come to dominate modern discourses on Indian philosophy. 410 0$aSouth Asia across the disciplines. 606 $aHinduism$xHistory 607 $aIndia$xIntellectual life 615 0$aHinduism$xHistory. 676 $a181.4 676 $a294.509 700 $aNicholson$b Andrew J$0160892 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791564903321 996 $aUnifying Hinduism$93696011 997 $aUNINA