The Hindus

by Wendy Doniger

  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.