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| Preface | ix | |
| Introduction | xi | |
| Part 1 | 1785-1885 | |
| Chapter 1 | The First Translation | |
| 1. | 'One of the greatest curiosities ever presented to the literary world' | 3 |
| 2. | 'The essence of all Shastrus' | 11 |
| Chapter 2 | Romantics and Transcendentalists | |
| 3. | 'A more comprehensive soul' | 15 |
| 4. | 'The first of books' | 20 |
| 5. | 'In every man's brain is the Sanscrit' | 26 |
| Chapter 3 | Missionaries and Mystics | |
| 6. | 'There are wounds within, which Hindooism cannot heal' | 32 |
| 7. | 'The odious indifference of these orientals' | 40 |
| 8. | 'Ce livre est probablement le plus beau qui soit sorti de la main des hommes' | 43 |
| Chapter 4 | Theories of Origin | |
| 9. | 'More than a mere hypothesis' | 47 |
| 10. | 'A rather popular and exoteric exposition of Vedantic doctrines' | 51 |
| 11. | 'So have I read this wonderful and spirit-thrilling speech' | 60 |
| Part 2 | 1885-1985 | |
| Chapter 5 | Renaissance, Radicalism and Theosophy | |
| 12. | 'A common and well-read scripture for the whole of educated India' | 67 |
| 13. | 'Our chief national heritage' | 77 |
| 14. | 'The Krishna stories belong to what is least admirable and moral in Indian religious literature' | 83 |
| 15. | 'The book of the philosophy of the Logos' | 88 |
| 16. | 'A clear-tongued prophecy of Christ' | 96 |
| Chapter 6 | Gandhi's Gita | |
| 17. | 'Understand in order that you may act' | 103 |
| 18. | 'The real facts' | 110 |
| 19. | 'That interpretation is not true which conflicts with Truth' | 113 |
| Chapter 7 | Rudolf Otto, J.W. Hauer and T.S. Eliot | |
| 20. | 'The original Gita' | 123 |
| 21. | 'Dem kampfende Geschlechte' | 126 |
| 22. | 'Fare forward, travellers!' | 132 |
| Chapter 8 | The Gita and the Counter-Culture | |
| 23. | 'The interchange of vibration' | 136 |
| 24. | 'Krishna with his Magic Mantra' | 141 |
| Chapter 9 | Ethical Monotheism and Social Caste | |
| 25. | 'Growing acquaintance with the Spiritual East' | 148 |
| 26. | 'The tactics of the author of the Gita can no longer succeed' | 156 |
| 27. | Conclusion | 165 |
| Glossary | 176 | |
| Bibliography | 179 | |
| Index | 185 |
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