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Oxford University Press, USA
Reciting the Goddess: Narratives of Place and the Making of Hinduism in Nepal
Reciting the Goddess: Narratives of Place and the Making of Hinduism in Nepal
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Reciting the Goddess presents the first critical study of the Svasth (SVK), a sixteenth-century Hindu narrative textual tradition. The extensive SVK manuscript tradition offers a rare opportunity to observe the making of a specific, distinct Hindu religious tradition. Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz argues that the SVK serves as a lens through which we can observe the creation of modern 'Hinduism' in the Himalayas, as the text both mirrored and informed key moments in the self-conscious creation of Nepal as the 'world's only Hindu kingdom' in the late medieval and early modern period.
Birkenholtz mines the literary historiography that is contained within the SVK text itself, chronicling the text's literary and narrative development as well as the development of the Svasth
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