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“The ivory tower of Hindu tradition, which largely came from scholarship back in the late 1800s and early 1900s, had this tendency to define Hinduism only through the lens of Sanskrit texts. A lot of the vernacular texts were rejected or not looked into. Given that the religion is truly the social, cultural religion that lives in the bodies of Hindus, we need to study Hinduisms also through the lens of mythology, of folklore, because that’s where we get this fabric of Hinduism, where we truly get the essence.” Read more...
Sravana Borkataky-Varma, Anthropologist
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