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Divine Faith (Din-i-Ilahi)
Dr. Strangelove
(film)
Dog Cookers (Shva-Paka caste)
dogs
accidental grace theology and
in Brahmanas
caste and
class tensions and
on IVC seals
modern treatment of
in Mughal Empire
in
Ramayana
sacrifice of
of Turkaram
in Upanishads
doomsday
Douglas, Mary
dowry
see also
bride-price
Draupadi, Queen
birth of
husbands of
Shiva and
Dravidian languages
Drona (tutor)
Drunken Babur Returns to Camp at Night, A
(painting)
Drupada (father of Draupadi)
Dry Days in Dobbagunta
(film)
DSS (Dalit Sangharsha Samiti)
dualism
Duhshasana, King
Dulari Devi
Dumézil, Georges
Dundes, Alan
Durga (goddess)
Durgawati, Rani
Duryodhana, King
Dusadhs (Dalit community)
Dushyanta, King
Dvapara Yuga (Age of the Deuce)
Dvaraka, flooded city
dvesha-bhakti
(devotion through hatred)
Dwarf (avatar of Vishnu)
Dyer, Reginald
“Dynasty of Vishnu, The” (
Harivamsha
)
Earth (goddess)
Earth Cow
Egypt
Einstein, Albert
Ekalavya (tribal archer)
Elam
Elephanta, temple to Shiva of
Elephanta Suite, The
(Theroux)
Eliade, Mircea
Eliot, T. S.
Ellamma, goddess
Ellenborough, Lord
Ellis, Francis Whyte
Ellora, temples of
Elphinstone, Mountstuart
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Encyclopedia Britannica
End of the Age, The
(Robertson)
Engle, Paul
Enlightenment
Eohippus
(Dawn Horse)
Eurostan
evil
in Brahmanas
gods vs. antigods and
evolution, theory of
Eyes Wide Shut
(film)
Ezour Veda
Fail Safe
(film)
Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr.
Farce of the Drunkard’s Games (Mattavilasa-prahasana)
(Varman I)
Farrell, Thomas F.
Farrukhsiyar, Mughal emperor
Fatso (Pivari), Queen
Faxian (Buddhist)
Fazl, Abu’l
Finch, Peter
Finnegans Wake
(Joyce)
First Afghan War
Fischer, Leopold (Agehananda Bharati)
fish
avatar of Vishnu
law of (
matsya-nyaya
)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Five Ms
flood myth
Flynn, Errol
Forever Odd
(Koontz)
Forster, E. M.
Foucault, Michel
Four Ages, myth of
Fourth Buddhist Council
France
Freemasons
free will
French and Indian Wars
Freud, Sigmund
Friday Mosque (Jami Masjid)
Frogs, The
(Aristophanes)
Frontline (Web site)
Frost, Robert
Gadhi (Brahmin)
“Gambler, The” (Vedic poem)
gambling
Gamow, George
Gardhara
Gandhari, Princess
Gandharvas (centaurs)
Gandhi, Indira
Gandhi, Mahatma
nonviolence of
vegetarianism of
Ganesha (god)
Ganga (goddess, river)
Ganga Devi
Ganges (goddess, river)
garbha griha
(womb house)
Gargi, story of
Gargya (Brahmin)
“Garland of Games” (Kshemendra)
Garuda (mythical bird)
Gascoigne, Bamber
Gauri (goddess)
Gautama (logician)
Gautama, Siddhartha,
see
Buddha
geese
gender, illusions of
Genesis, Book of
Genghis Khan
Ghasidas (farm servant)
Ghaznavid Empire
Ghorid (nuclear missile)
Ghorid dynasty
Ghosh, Amitav
ghouls (Pishachas)
Gibb, Hamilton, A. R.
Gilgamesh, epic of
Ginsberg, Allen
Giroux, Leo
Gita Govinda
(“The Song of the Cowherd”) (Jayadeva)
Glanville-Hicks, Peggy
“Glorification of the Goddess” (
Devimahatmya
)
goats
see also
sheep
Goddess, The
(film)
God Only Knows
(film)
Godse, Nathuram
Goethe, Johann von
Goggavve (saint)
Golden Temple
Golden Voyage of Sinbad, The
(film)
Golkonda Vyaparis
Golwalkar, Madhav Sadashiv
Gonds
Gondwanaland
Gopis (cowherd women)
Gorakhnath (yogi)
Goswamins (sect)
Götterdämmerung
(Wagner)
Gough, Kathleen
Gould, Stephen Jay
Govind Singh
Grant, Cary
Great Expectations
(Dickens)
Great Gatsby, The
(Fitzgerald)
Great Indian Novel, The
(Tharoor)
Great Kali (Maha-Kali)
Greece, ancient
Greek language
Grihya Sutras
Gudimalla linga
Gugga (folk god)
Guha (hunter)
Gujaratis
Gujars (caste)
Gunanidhi (Ocean of Virtues)
Gunga Din
(film)
Gupta Empire
art of
coinage of
European historians’ perception of
founding of
Huns and
mathematics and astronomy in
Puranas and
sectarian worship in
temples of
women in
Gurjara Pratiharas
Guru Nanak
Haeckel, Ernst
Haldane, J. B. S.
Haldighati, battle of
Hamlet
(Shakespeare)
Hanshaw, Annette
Hanuman (monkey god)
Hara (Shiva)
Harappan Civilization,
see
Indus Valley Civilization
“Hare Krishna Mantra” (Lennon)
Hare Krishna movement
Hariaudh (poet)
Harichand, King
Hari-Hara (Vishnu-Shiva)
Harihari I, Vijayanagar emperor
Harijans
Harisena, King
Harishchandra, King
Harivamsha
(“The Dynasty of Vishnu”)
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
(Rushdie)
Harrison, George
Harrod’s (department store)
Harsha, king
Harshacharita
(Bana)
Harsha kingdom
Hastings, Warren
Hatha Yoga
Hayagriva (avatar of Vishnu)
Hayden, Sterling
Hebrew language
Hegel, Friedrich
Heliodorus
Help!
(film)
Henry VIII, king of England
Herodotus
Hidimbi (ogress)
Hijras (sect)
Hiltebeitel, Alf
Himalaya (mountain, father of Parvati)
Hindal (son of Babur)
Hindal (son of Timur the Lame)
Hindu Human Rights
Hinduism:
alternative
cosmology of
diversity of
European scholars of
fusion
humans-gods alliance and
Marx on
multiplicity within
oral and written traditions of
philosophic schools of
pluralism of
sectarianism and
sense of time and
as term
today
Hinduism Invades America
(Thomas)
Hindu Marriage Act (1955)
Hindu Nationalist Party, Indian
Hindustan Times
Hindutva faction
Hiranyakashipu (antigod)
history:
abuse of
chronological framework of
European scholars of
individuality factor and
myth and
positivist
rabbit in the moon and
selectivity and
synedoche and
History of Creation
(Haeckel)
Hittites
hodgepodge
Holkar, Malhar Rao
“Holy Lake of the Acts of Rama, The” (
Ramcaritmanas
) (Man Singh)
Homer
Homo Necans
(Burkert)
homosexuality
horses
Arab
of clay
in Delhi Sultanate
Dhyanu goddess story and
Hindu-Muslim relations and
as Hindu symbol
importation of
in IVC culture
of Kalki
in
Kim
mares
stallions and
submarine fire
modern worship of
in Mughal Empire
political symbolism of
representations of
sacrifice of,
see
horse sacrifice
in Upanishads
in Vedic culture
in vernacular epics
horse sacrifice
in Brahmanas
of Janamejaya
of Kalki
in
Mahabharata
in Puranas
of Rama
in
Ramayana
in
Rig Veda
ritual copulation in
of Samudra Gupta
in Shunga dynasty
Sita and
women and
of Yudhishthira
House of Commons, British
House of Lords, British
human rights
Human Rights Watch
Humayun, Mughal emperor
Huns
hunting
Husain, Ala-ud-din
Huxley, Aldous
Ibn ‘Arabi
Ibn Batuta
Idries Shah
I Have Sind
(Priscilla Napier)
Iken, Richard
Ikshvakus dynasty
Iliad
(Homer)
illusion
of caste
of gender
king-Pariah theme and
philosophy of
Illustrated Kama-sutras
Ilusha (Brahmin)
I Married a Communist
(Roth)
Impressionist, The
(Kunzru)
Inayat Khan
incarnation,
see avatar
India:
agriculture in
ancient cosmology of
anti-suttee legislation in
birth of
borders of
Buddhist monuments in
chess invented in
climate of
Dark Age
geologic origins of
in Harsha era
Independence of
Islamic rule in,
see
Delhi Sultanate
mythical origins of
name of
Partition of
river systems of
and sense of time
temple cities of
India (
cont.
):
trade and
U.S. and
India: From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond
(Tharoor)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
(film)
Indian rope trick
Indigenous Horse Society of India
Indo-Europeans
Aryan invasion hypothesis and
fusion and
Raj and
Indo-Iranian language
Indra (king of the gods)
Brahminicide of
elephant of
Janamejaya’s horse sacrifice and
King Shibi and
in
Rig Veda
sacrifice debate and
suttee story and
throne of
Vritra slain by
Yudhishthira’s dilemma and
Indrani (wife of Indra)
Indus Valley Civilization (IVC)
animal domestication in
animals in culture of
Bhimbetka cave paintings of
extent of
Hinduism and
language of
material culture of
religion in
Rig Veda
and
seal artifacts of
Vedic origins hypothesis and
Ingalls, Daniel H. H.
Inglis, Stephen
“In Memory of W. B. Yeats” (Auden)
Inquisition
International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON)
Internet
Invading the Sacred
Iran
Iron Pillar of Mehrauli
Isami (historian)
Ishvara (Shiva)
Ishvarakrishna (philosopher)
Isis Unveiled
(Blavatsky)
Islam
astronomy of
bhakti movement and
in India
in Mughal Empire
Raj and
reconversion ceremony and
Sufism and
see also
Delhi Sultanate; Muslims
Jabali (atheist)
Jaffe, Sam
Jagannatha (form of Vishnu) temple of
Jahan, Nur
Jahan, Shah (Mughal emperor)
Jahanara (sister of Shah Jahan)
Jahandah Shah, Mughal emperor

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