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Index
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A
advaita vedanta 28, 29, 32, 70, 74, 120
Akkamahadevi 80
Ambedkar, B. K. 87 -8, 89, 94, 119
Anandamayi Ma 22 -3, 119
Antal 80
Aranyakas 14
Arnold, Sir Edwin 77
Arya Samaj 7, 70, 72, 113, 118
Aryans 5, 18, 72, 110, 111, 114
ashrama 19, 41, 121
Atharva Veda 14
atman 26, 29, 31, 121
see also self
avatara 43, 50, 53, 121
Ayodhya 40 -1, 47, 105, 114, 119
B
Besant, Annie 76, 82
Bhagavad Purana 14, 59, 63
Bhagavad-gita 8, 14, 15, 28, 32, 50,
53 -4, 63, 76
-7, 111, 117, 118
and karma 34 -7
western commentators on 8, 9, 67
bhakti 15, 51, 89, 117, 121
bhakti poets 65, 80, 98, 111
bhakti yoga 35, 64
Bhaktivedanta Swami, A. C. 63
Bharata 40
Blavatsky, Madame Helena 75
western commentators on 75
Brahma Kumaris 90
brahman 18, 23, 26, 31 -2, 56, 75, 121
Madhva on 31
Ramanuja on 30
Shankara on 29
Brahmanas 14
Brahma-sutra 26, 28
brahmin 1 -2, 12, 16 -20, 26, 49, 61, 69,
79, 95, 97, 121
brahminism 15, 29, 35, 46, 78, 79, 90,
110
Brahmo Samaj 9, 69, 70, 74, 118
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 14
Britain 93, 94, 97, 98 -100
British 4, 6, 7, 66, 67 -70, 95, 96, 113
Buddha 34, 53, 117
Buddhism 1, 29, 30, 88, 89, 108, 111, 117
Burghart, Richard 94
Burma 93
C
Cambodia 93, 95
caste 21, 36 -7, 69, 74, 78, 79 -80, 86 -91,
92, 111
Chaitanya 28, 63, 66, 118
chandala 79 -80
see also untouchables; dalit
Chandogya Upanishad 14
Chatterjee, Debjani 44
Chaudhuri, Nirad 10
Christianity 1, 9, 10, 66, 69 -70, 72, 82,
89, 92, 108 -9, 110, 111
colonialism 7, 10, 67 -8, 95 -7
cow 58, 107 -8, 112 -15
D
dalit 78, 86 -91, 113, 114, 121
see also untouchables

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Publication Information: Book Title: Hinduism: A Very Short Introduction. Contributors: Kim Knott - author. Publisher: Oxford University Press. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1998. Page Number: 135.
    
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