The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society
Essays on Vedic sacrifice, kingship, brahmin and king, renunciation and the 'inner conflict' between ritual order and worldly power.
- Language
- English
- Author
- J. C. Heesterman
- Extent
- 1,399 passages, 118,479 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1985; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.8 Flash; chapters and sections… · In copyright (J. C. Heesterman †2014); freely available on archive.org, google.com — shown with credit and a…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 10 parts
- c2 Contents — 1 part
- c3 Preface — 6 parts
- c4 Introduction — 9 parts
- c5 1 India and the Inner Conflict of Tradition — 45 parts
- c6 2 Brahmin, Ritual, and Renouncer — 9 parts
- c7 3 The Case of the Severed Head — 25 parts
- c8 4 The Flood Story in Vedic Ritual — 4 parts
- c9 5 The Origin of the Nāstika — 39 parts
- c10 6 Vedic Sacrifice and Transcendence — 48 parts
- c11 7 Ritual, Revelation, and the Axial Age — 41 parts
- c12 8 The Conundrum of the King's Authority — 39 parts
- c13 9 Kauṭilya and the Ancient Indian State — 7 parts
- c14 10 Power, Priesthood, and Authority — 9 parts
- c15 11 Western Expansion, Indian Reaction: Mughal Empire and British Raj — 8 parts
- c16 12 Caste, Village, and Indian Society — 35 parts
- c17 13 Caste and Karma: Max Weber's Analysis of Caste — 24 parts
- c18 Abbreviations — 1 part
- c19 Notes — 14 parts
- c20 Index — 100 parts