The Blackwell companion to Hinduism

Introduction: Establishing the boundaries / Gavin Flood --
PART I. THEORETICAL ISSUES --
Colonialism and the construction of Hinduism / Gauri Viswanathan --
Orientalism and Hinduism / David Smith --
PART II. TEXT AND TRADITION --
Vedas and upaniṣads / Michael Witzel --
Dharmaśāstras / Ludo Rocher --
Sanskrit epics / John Brockington --
Purāṇas / Freda Matchett --
Tamil Hindu literature / Norman Cutler --
Literature of Hinduism in Malayalam / Rich Freeman --
North Indian Hindi devotional literature / Nancy M. Martin --
Śaiva traditions / Gavin Flood --
History of Vaiṣṇava traditions: an esquisse / Gérard Colas --
Renouncer tradition / Patrick Olivelle --
Householder tradition in Hindu society / T.N. Madan --
Teyyam tradition of Kerala / Rich Freeman --
Month of kārtik and women's ritual devotions to Krishna in Benares / Tracy Pintchman --
PART III. SYSTEMATIC THOUGHT --
Introduction ; Science of language / Frits Staal --
Indian mathematics / Takao Hayashi --
Calendar, astrology, and astronomy / Michio Yano --
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 / André Padoux --
PART IV. SOCIETY, POLITICS, AND NATION --
On the relationship between caste and Hinduism / Declan Quigley --
Modernity, reform, and revival / Dermot Killingley --
Contemporary political Hinduism / C. Ram-Prasad --
Goddess and the nation: subterfuges of antiquity, the cunning of modernity / Sumathi Ramaswamy --
Gender in a devotional universe / Vasudha Narayanan.