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1 Introduction 1
Contesting the Unity of Hinduism 1
Vijnanabhiksu and His Late Medieval Milieu 6
Doxography and Method 9
Premodern Philosophy in a Postcolonial World 14
2 An Alternative History of Vedanta 24
Vedanta and Orientalist Historiography 24
Early Bhedabheda Vedanta 26
Bhedabheda Vedanta After Sankara 30
The Future of Bhedabheda Vedanta 37
3 Vijnanabhiksu's "Difference and Non-Difference" Vedanta 39
The Meaning of "Bhedabheda" 39
Self and Brahman as Part and Whole 50
Brahman's Causality in Advaita and Bhedabheda Vedanta 56
Bhedabheda and the Unity of Philosophies 65
4 A History of God in Samkhya and Yoga 67
Samkhya: An Atheist Philosophy? 67
Theism in Early Samkhya and the Puranas 69
Atheism and Theism in "Classical" Samkhya 76
Samkhya and Yoga 79
5 Reading Against the Grain of the Samkhyasutras 84
Atheism in the Samkhyasutras 84
Kapila's "Bold Assertion" as speech Act 90
Degrees of Deception in Samkhya and the Puranas 96
Disproving God in the Samkhyasutras 100
6 Yoga, Praxis, and Liberation 108
The Excellence of the Yogic Path 108
Karma and Embodied Liberation 114
The Unity of Yoga and Vedanta Soteriologies 118
7 Vedanta and Samkhya in the Orientalist imagination 124
Indian Philosophy and the Critique of Orientalism 124
Colebrooke and Gough: The Struggle for the Essence of Vedanta 128
Paul Deussen and the Influence of German Idealism 133
Richard Garbe: Samkhya as the Foundation of Indian Philosophy 138
Orientalism and Modern Hindu Thought 142
8 Doxography, Classificatory Schemes, and Contested Histories 144
Doxography as a Genre 144
Early Models for Doxography in India: Cattanar and Bhaviveka 148
Haribhadra, Jainism, and the Six Systems 154
Madhava and the Influence of Advaita Doxography 158
Madhusudana Sarasvati: Foreignness and the Philosophical Other 163
9 Affirmers (Astikas) and Deniers (Nastikas) in Indian History 166
Toward a Comparative Heresiology 166
The Meaning of Astika and Nastika 168
Perspectives from the Jainas, Buddhists, and Grammarians 172
Beyond Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy 176
Astika and Nastika in the Late Medieval Period 179
10 Hindu Unity and the Non-Hindu Other 185
Inclusivism and Hindu Toleration 185
Decoding Late Medieval Doxography 190
The Absence of Islam 192
Hinduism: A Modern Invention? 196
Communalism, Universalism, and Hindu Identity 201
Notes 207
Bibliography 239
Index 251
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