© Columbia University Press
Unifying Hinduism: Philosophy and Identity in Indian Intellectual History
October, 2010
Cloth, 280 pages, 0 halftones, 0 color illus., 0 line drawings, 0 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-14986-0
$45.00
/ £31.00
"In this clear, analytical, well-documented, and well-argued book, Nicholson discusses the conflicts amont the various systems of Hindu philosophy and the contributions of the late medieval and early modern thinkers in reconciling the systems and arriving at a unifying picture of Hinduism in Advaita Vedanta." — Choice
"This path-breaking work is very helpful and a must read for scholars of Indian history, Hinduism and south Asian religious traditions." — Vineeth Mathoor, Metapsychology
"Unifying Hinduism does much more than deal with the philosophy of Vijnanabhiksu, it questions in an intelligent and constructive manner how Indian philosophy has been studied in modern scholarship—and ways in which it has been done wrong." — Johannes Bronkhorst, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
"Andrew J. Nicholson's courageous and challenging thesis is that processes of unification were at work in early modern India, particularly in the attempt by Vedanta philosophers to create hierarchies of philosophical schools, and these processes 'made possible the world religion later known by the name Hinduism.' Unifying Hinduism is a fluent, eminently readable, and absorbing study of a period in Indian intellectual history that fully deserves the attention it is now receiving." — Jonardon Ganeri, University of Sussex