Acknowledgements
Remerciement
Introduction
Le passé n’est pas (toujours) un pays étranger
The Past is not (always) a Foreign Country
Jackie ASSAYAG
Sacred Texts and regionalism or Nationalism
The Reworking of “Vedic” Paradigms in Medieval Liturgies
Gérard COLAS
Priestly Education and the Āgamic Tradition in Contemporary Tamil Nadu
Chris FULLER
Texts, Temples, and the Teaching of Tantra in Kerala
Rich FREEMAN
Use of Sacred Texts. Generation of Knowledge and Effort of the Colonial State to Suppress Female Infanticide in India
L.S. VISHWANATH
Two Ways to Tell a Story: Ālhā in the Bhaviṣya Purāṇa
Alf HILTEBEITEL
Monumental Texts: The Critical Edition of India’s National Heritage
Peter van der VEER
Militants Hindus and the Conversion Issue (1885-1990): From Śuddhi to Dharm Parivartan. The Politization and the Diffusion of an “Invention of Tradition”
Christophe JAFFRELOT
Construction of regional Traditions
Family Biographies as Sources for an Historical Anthropology of Muslims Women’s Lives in 19th Century South India
Sylvia VATUK
How Can One be Hindu or Muslim? The Resources of Hagiographic Exemplar in South India
Jackie ASSAYAG
The Banyan Tree of the Vārkarī Tradition: Transmission and Invention
Irina GLUSHKOVA
The Contradiction of Tradition: An Untouchable Caste of Gujarat
Rosa-Maria PEREZ
Artisans Oral Tradition as a Ressource of History
Jan BROUWER
Lohana and Sindhi networks
Pierre LACHAIER
Can Tradition be Enforced ? Today’s Architectural Design in Bhutan Today
Pierre PICHARD
Different Perspectives on Folk theatre’s State and Recent History in Tamil Nadu
Hanne Maria de BRUIN
Imagined Narratives of Regionalism or Nationalism
The Role of Tantrism in the Construction of Cultural Identity of the Newars (Kathmandu Valley)
Gérard TOFFIN
Medieval Bengali Traditions as Transmitted by the 19th and early 20th Century Historian and Writers of Bengal
Aniruddha RAY
The “Forgotten Obligation”: A Reinterpretation of Sayyid Aḥmad Barelwī’s Jihād in the North-West-Frontier, 1826-1831
Marc GABORIEAU
Let the Gazetteers burn! Scholars, Local Politics and the Nationalist Debate in the Kolhapur District Controversy
Véronique BENEÏ
Shiv Sena: History, Myth and Shivaji
Gérard HEUZE
Inhabiting the Body of the Goddess: Urban Form within the Festival of Draupadī in Bangalore
Smriti SRINIVAS
California’s Punjabi Pioneers: Remembering/Claiming Homelands
Karen LEONARD
