Questioning the conventional depiction of India as a nation divided between religious communities, Gottschalk shows that individuals living in India have multip

"[Sets] the stage for a rewriting of nearly a thousand years of history to create new understandings of the nature of cultural encounters. . . . The volume brea

This text argues that Hindu nationalism is not only destructive of communal relations, but that it also prevents Hinduism from emerging as a world religion. It