dharma in
first English translation of
Gandhi on
Krishna in
moksha in
three yogas of
U.S.’s misappropriation of
Bhagavan, Lord
Bhagavata Purana
Bhagavati (goddess)
Bhagiratha (sage)
Bhairava (god)
bhakti
accidental grace and
akam poetry and
Bhagavad Gita and
Brahmins and
Buddhism and
Cankam poetry and
caste and
Christianity and
darshan concept and
in early Tamil literature
Islam and
Jainas and
Judaism and
kingship and
in modern folklore
origins of
Pariahs and
poetry and
proselytizing and
sacrifice and
of Shiva
Sufism and
Tantra and
temple diversity of
violence of
women and
Bhaktivedanta, A.C.
Bharata, king
Bharata (brother of Rama)
Bharata Natya Shastra
Bharati, Agehananda (Leopold Fischer)
Bharati, story of
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
Bhatia, Nadish
Bhattacharjee, Buddhadeb
Bhawani (goddess)
Bhil (tribal people)
Bhima see also Pandavas
Bhimala (Bhil)
Bhimbetka cave paintings
Bhishma (son of Satyavati)
Bhojavdeva (philosopher)
Bhrigu (sage)
Bijjala, Jaina king
Bilgrami, Azad
Bindusara (Bimbisara), Mauryan king
Birbal (minister)
“Birth of India, The” (Forster)
Birth of the Prince, The (Kalidasa)
Biruni, Abu Arrayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-
Black Hole of Calcutta
Blanco (horse)
Blavatsky, Helena
Blood Seed (Raktabija) (antigod)
Bloom, Allan
Blue Hand, A: The Beats in India (Baker)
boar (avatar of Vishnu)
“Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” (Miner)
Bollywood
Bombay Harijan Temple Entry Act (1948)
Bombay Times
Bonfire of the Vanities (Wolfe)
Book of the Night Raid
Bose, Jagadish Chandra
Bowers, Dr.
Brahma (creator god)
Bhairava’s beheading of
mutual creation myth and
Shiva’s beheading of
Skull Bearer’s beheading of
Brahma-charin
Brahmagupta (mathematician)
Brahmanas
class conflicts and
composition of
cows in
death in
dog sacrifice in
evil and
folklore and
Ganges urbanization and
horse sacrifice in
human sacrifice and
kingship and
language of
nonviolence in
sacrifice in
vegetarianism and
women in
brahman (divine substance)
Brahmavaivarta Purana
Brahminicide
of Balarama
beheading of Brahma and
of Indra
Brahmins
bhakti and
caste system and
in Delhi sultanate
governance and
Kshatriyas’ conflict with
in Manu’s taxonomy
marriage rank of
in Mauryan Empire
mixing of classes feared by
Puranas and
reclassification of
Rig Veda and
sacrifice and
shastras as threat to
Shramanas and
in South India
suttee and
Tantras and
texts and
in Vedic caste system
violence and
Brahmo Samaj (Society of God)
breast goddesses
bricks, brickmaking
bride-price
see also dowry
Brief Remarks Regarding Modern Encroachments on the Ancient Rights of Females (Roy)
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brihaspati (god)
Britain
and Hindu as term
sind annexed by
suttee practice and
see also Raj
British East India Company
Brosnan, Pierce
Bruno, Giordano
Brunton, William
Buddha
as avatar of Vishnu
language of
Buddhacharita (Ashvaghosha)
Buddhism
ahimsa and
Ashoka’s patronage of
bhakti and
Dalit conversions to
demonization of
in Harsha era
Hinduism and
of Kalki
Magadhi dialect of
in Mauryan Empire
monuments and stupas of
Shaivas and
women and
Bukka, Vijayanagar emperor
bulls
Bundelkhand, kingdom of
Burke, Edmund
Burkert, Walter
Bush, George W.
Caesar, Julius
Campantar, Tirujnana
Cankam (assembly) poetry
Carnegy, Patrick
Carroll, Lewis
Carter, Jimmy
Casablanca (film)
caste, caste system
in Artha-shastra
bhakti and
Brahmins and
class color and
conversions and
Devi movement and
dharma and
dogs and
Ekalavya story and
Hindu-Muslim relations and
homosexuality and
illusion of
inversions of
Kabir’s attitude toward
in Kama-sutra
lowest
in Mahabharata
Manu’s taxonomy of
origins of
in Puranas
in purity and pollution ideology
in Raj
Rama-crow story and
in Ramayana
reconversion ceremony and
in Rig Veda
Satnami mythology and
in shastras
in Upanishads
of Vedic peoples
vertical mobility and
Yudhishthira’s dilemma and
see also specific castes
Catholicism
cats
Cat school
Caucasians
Cekkiyar (poet)
centaurs (Gandharvas)
Chaitanya (saint)
Chalukya kingdom
Chamaras (caste)
Chanakya (Brahmin)
Chanda, story of
Chandalas (caste)
Chand Bibi, regent of Bijapur
Chandellas, kingdom of
Chandidas (poet)
Chandika (goddess)
Mahisha slain by
Shumbha slain by
Chandogya Upanishad
Chandragupta, Mauryan emperor
Chandra Gupta I, Gupta emperor
Chandra Gupta II, Gupta emperor
Chang, Kenneth
Chantrey, Francis Legatt
Charaka (medical author)
chariot
Charioteers (Suta caste)
Charlemagne, Holy Roman emperor
Charvakas (
materialists)
Chatterji, Bankimcandra
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chauhan, Prithvi Raj
Cheras, kingdom of
chess (chaturanga)
Chetak (stallion)
Chetwode, Penelope
Chetwode, Philip
Chicago Daily Tribune
China
Chinnamastaka (Severed Head)
Chishti, Khwaja Muin-ud-din
Chishti, Shaikh Salim
Chitrangada, Queen
Chola kingdom
temples of
Christianity
bhakti movement and
Hindu conversions to
in Mughal Empire
Raj and
savior image of
Christo (artist)
Chudala, Queen
Churchill, Winston
Ciannelli, Eduardo
Ciruttontar, story of
City of Satan (Shaytanpura)
Clapham Sect
Clement of Alexandria
Clinton, Bill
Clive, Robert
Clooney, George
Closing of the American Mind, The (Bloom)
Cloud Messenger, The (Kalidasa)
CNN
Cobra People
Cocktail Party, The (Eliot)
Conference between an Advocate for, and an Opponent of the Practice of Burning Widows Alive, A (Roy)
Congress Party, Indian
“Conquest of the Four Corners of the World”
Conrad, Joseph
consort goddesses
Constitution, Indian
Constitution, U.S.
Cornwallis, Charles
Coryat, Thomas
CowParade
cows
in Brahmanas
five products of
modern attitudes toward
promiscuity and
protection of
sacred
sacrifice of
as symbol of nonviolence
C. P. Ramaswami Anjar Foundation
cranes
Crete
crows
Cuarón, Alfonso
Cunningham, Alexander
Cuntarar (poet)
Cutler, Norman
Cyrus II (the Great), king of Persia
Dadhyanch (priest)
Dadu (Sant)
Dakani poetry
Daksha (Lord of Creatures)
Dalhousie, James
Dalits (Scheduled Castes)
in conversion to Buddhism
Ekalavya myth and
nude pilgrimage of
Dalit Sangharsha Samiti (DSS)
Dalrymple, William
Damon, Matt
Danyal (son of Akbar)
darshan, concept of
Darwin, Charles
Dasas (caste)
Dasharatha (Rama’s father)
hunting episode and
Dashavatara-stotra
Datta, Michael Madhusudan
Dattatreya (god)
Dawn (goddess)
Dawn Horse (Eohippus)
Dayabhaga (law system)
Day of the Triffids, The (Wyndham)
death
in Brahmanas
karma and
recurrent
in Rig Veda
Death (god)
Deceivers, The (film)
“Deeds of the Ten Avatars” (Kshemendra)
Deism
Delhi Sultanate
Brahmins in
cultural exchange in
desecration of temples in
evolution of language and
Hindu-Muslim relations in
horses and horse trading in
Islamic invasions and
Mughals compared with
preaching of Kabir in
Sufism in
temples-mosques in
Vijayanagar Empire and
Virashaivas sect in
Delhi University
demons
de Nobili, Roberto
Deogarh, Vishnu Temple in
Devaki (queen)
Devaraja (King of the Gods)
Devaraya I, Vijayanagar emperor
Devi (goddess)
Devi, Mahashweta
Devibhagavata Purana
Devi movement
Dewas, Raja of
dhamma (concept)
dharma
Aims of Life and
in Bhagavad Gita
castes and
earliest text on
in emergency, see apad-dharma
karma of
in Ramayana
subtlety of
Dharma (god)
Dharma Bums, The (Kerouac)
Dharma-shastras
women in
Dhritarashtra (son of Vyasa)
Dhyanu Bhagat (goddess)
Diaz (Portuguese trader)
dice, see gambling
Dickens, Charles
Dirgha-jihva (Long-Tongue) (ogress)
Divakara, Matanga
“Diverse Callings”
Divine Faith (Din-i-Ilahi)
Dr. Strangelove (film)
Dog Cookers (Shva-Paka caste)
dogs
accidental grace theology and
in Brahmanas
caste and
class tensions and
on IVC seals
modern treatment of
in Mughal Empire
in Ramayana
sacrifice of
of Turkaram
in Upanishads
doomsday
Douglas, Mary
dowry see also bride-price
Draupadi, Queen
birth of
husbands of
Shiva and
Dravidian languages
Drona (tutor)
Drunken Babur Returns to Camp at Night, A (painting)
Drupada (father of Draupadi)
Dry Days in Dobbagunta (film)
DSS (Dalit Sangharsha Samiti)
dualism
Duhshasana, King
Dulari Devi
Dumézil, Georges
Dundes, Alan
Durga (goddess)
Durgawati, Rani
Duryodhana, King
Dusadhs (Dalit community)
Dushyanta, King
Dvapara Yuga (Age of the Deuce)
Dvaraka, flooded city
dvesha-bhakti (devotion through hatred)
Dwarf (avatar of Vishnu)
Dyer, Reginald
“Dynasty of Vishnu, The” (Harivamsha)
Earth (goddess)
Earth Cow
Egypt
Einstein, Albert
Ekalavya (tribal archer)
Elam
Elephanta, temple to Shiva of
Elephanta Suite, The (Theroux)
Eliade, Mircea
Eliot, T. S.
Ellamma, goddess
Ellenborough, Lord
Ellis, Francis Whyte
Ellora, temples of
Elphinstone, Mountstuart
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Encyclopedia Britannica
End of the Age, The (Robertson)
Engle, Paul
Enlightenment
Eohippus (Dawn Horse)
Eurostan
evil
in Brahmanas
gods vs. antigods and
evolution, theory of
Eyes Wide Shut (film)
Ezour Veda
Fail Safe (film)
Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr.
Farce of the Drunkard’s Games (Mattavilasa-prahasana) (Varman I)
Farrell, Thomas F.
Farrukhsiyar, Mughal emperor
Fatso (Pivari), Queen
Faxian (Buddhist)
Fazl, Abu’l
Finch, Peter
Finnegans Wake (Joyce)
First Afghan War
Fischer, Leopold (Agehananda Bharati)
fish
avatar of Vishnu
law of (matsya-nyaya)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Five Ms
flood myth
Flynn, Errol
Forever Odd (Koontz)
Forster, E. M.
Foucault, Michel
Four Ages, myth of
Fourth Buddhist Council
France
Freemasons
free will
French and Indian Wars
Freud, Sigmund
Friday Mosque (Jami Masjid)
Frogs, The (Aristophanes)
Frontline (Web site)
Frost, Robert
Gadhi (Brahmin)
“Gambler, The” (Vedic poem)
gambling
Gamow, George
Gardhara
Gandhari, Princess
Gandharvas (centaurs)
Gandhi, Indira
Gandhi, Mahatma
nonviolence of
vegetarianism of
Ganesha (god)
Ganga (goddess, river)
Ganga Devi
Ganges (goddess, river)
garbha griha (womb house)
Gargi, story of
Gargya (Brahmin)
“Garland of Games” (Kshemendra)
Garuda (mythical bird)
Gascoigne, Bamber
Gauri (goddess)
Gautama (logician)
Gautama, Siddhartha, see Buddha
geese
gender, illusions of
Genesis, Book of
Genghis Khan
Ghasidas (farm servant)
Ghaznavid Empire
Ghorid (nuclear missile)
Ghorid dynasty
Ghosh, Amitav
ghouls (Pishachas)
Gibb, Hamilton, A. R.
Gilgamesh, epic of
Ginsberg, Allen
Giroux, Leo
Gita Govinda (“The Song of the Cowherd”) (Jayadeva)
Glanville-Hicks, Peggy
“Glorification of the Goddess” (Devimahatmya)
goats see also sheep
Goddess, The (film)
God Only Knows (film)
Godse, Nathuram
Goethe, Johann von
Goggavve (saint)
Golden Temple
Golden Voyage of Sinbad, The (film)
Golkonda Vyaparis
Golwalkar, Madhav Sadashiv
Gonds
Gondwanaland
Gopis (cowherd women)
Gorakhnath (yogi)
Goswamins (sect)
Götterdämmerung (Wagner)
Gough, Kathleen
Gould, Stephen Jay
Govind Singh
Grant, Cary
Great Expectations (Dickens)
Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald)
Great Indian Novel, The (Tharoor)
Great Kali (Maha-Kali)
Greece, ancient
Greek language
Grihya Sutras
Gudimalla linga
Gugga (folk god)
Guha (hunter)
Gujaratis
Gujars (caste)
Gunanidhi (Ocean of Virtues)
Gunga Din (film)
Gupta Empire
art of
coinage of
European historians’ perception of
founding of
Huns and
mathematics and astronomy in
Puranas and
sectarian worship in
temples of
women in
Gurjara Pratiharas
Guru Nanak
Haeckel, Ernst
Haldane, J. B. S.
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