IMAGINING HINDUISM Swami Paramananda The major landmarks in the

The major landmarks in the timeline of India were Buddha period from 563 to 483 BC

immersed in the ocean of Her substance

dhvarati himsa—karma tatpratisedhah (Nir

all reality is subjective

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IMAGINING HINDUISM Swami Paramananda The major landmarks in theImagining Hinduism introduction a new and significant way of looking at western construction of Hinduism, Employing current postcolonial categories, Sharada Sugirtharajah examines how Hinduism has been defined, interpreted and manufactured through Western categorization, from the foreign interventions of the eighteenth and nineteeth century orientalists and missionaries to the present day. Her contention is thet ever since early