Hindu Studies

This book, Hindu Studies: Foundations and Frameworks, has a critical engagement with 'Hindu Studies' as a seminal protectorate of research in India. While exploring the literary, philosophical, cultural, historical and social aspects of the Hindu literary homily and pedagogy, it resonates with a multidisciplinary and scientific approach to Hinduism. This research, not by a whisker, is reliant on a sheer belief system; it is, rather, a study of transdisciplinary domains and allied disciplines like Theology, Philosophy, History, Sociology, Anthropology, Literature and Art History—Cultural Materialism being the theoretical undercurrent. The chapters are experimental, ambitious; they propose the most penetrating paradigm shift through the assorted traditions, literary texts, practices and theories within Hinduism. The thrust of the research is on the methodological approaches, historical gradient, ethnographic research, textual interpretations, regional and vernacular traditions, contemporary relevance, poetics and aesthetics, comparative models and social and cultural contexts vis-à-vis Hindu Studies.