The Hindus An Alternative History

includes index and biblioraphy

1 Introduction : Working with available light ...17 2 Time and space in India : 50 million to 50,000 BCE ...50 3.Civilization in the indus valley : 50,000to 1500 BCE ...65 4. Between the ruins and the text : 200 to 1500 BCE ...85 5 Humans, Animals and gods in the rigvida : 1500 to 1000 BCE ...103 6 Sacrifice in the brahmanas : 800 to 500 BCE ...135 7 Renunciation in the upanishads : 600 to 200 BCE ...164 8 The three (or is it four?) aims of life in the hindu imaginary ...199 9 Women and ogresses in the Ramayana : 400 TO 200 CE ...212 10 Violence in the Mahabharata :300 BCE TO300 CE ...252 11 Dharma in the Mahabharata : 300 BCE TO 300 CE ...277 12 Escape clauses in the Shastras : 100 BCE TO 400 CE ...304 13 Bhaki in south India : 100 BCE TO 900 CE ...338 14 Goddesses and gods in the early puranas : 300 to 600 ce ...370 15 Sects and sex in the tantric puranas and the tantras : 600to 900 ce ...406 16 Fusion and rivalry under the Delhi sultanate : 650 to 1500 ce ...445 17 Avatar and accidental grace in the later puranas : 800 to 1500 ce ...473 18 Philosophical feuds in south india and kashmir :800 to1300 ce ...503 19 Dialogue and tolerance under the Mughals : 1500 to 1700ce ...572 20 Hinduism under the Mughals : 1500 to 1700 ce ...551 21 Caster, class and conversion under the British Raj : 1600 TO 1900 CE ...574 22 Suttee and reform in the twilight of the Raj : 1800 TO 197 CE ...610 23 Hindu in America : 1900 ...636 24 The past in the present : 1950 ..654 25 Inconclusion, or the abuse of history ...687