Hinduism in Public and Private: Reform, Hindutva, Gender, and Sampraday

By Antony Copley

Book Overview

This volume looks at the phenomenon of religious reform movements in terms of the larger paradigm of modernisation, and in collusion with the ideas of nationalism and Hindutva and attempts to investigate why there might be a need for a new kind of social integration within the Hindu community in India.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195663934
• ISBN13: 9780195663938
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.8"