New Focus on Hindu Studies

by Arvind Sharma

This work surveys the state of Hindus studies over the ages by studyingthe history of Hinduism in four periods: Vedic Hinduism, Medieval Hinduism, Classical Hinduism, Modern Hinduism. Commencing the study with some general observations on the study of Hinduism such as confinement of the study by and large to India and lack of a political history of Hinduism, it examins features of Hinduism that established themselves during the different periods.The book will be useful for students scholars of Hindu political thought, philosophy and religion and especially those concerned with Hindu studies as a discipline, as it throws up new areas for research in Hindu studies which have so far been neglected. About the Author :Aarvind sharma, formerely of the I.A.S., is the Briks Professor of Comparative Religion in the Faculty of Religious studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada and currently engaged in promoting the adoption of a engaged in promoting the adoption of a Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the World`s Religions.