RELS 303 Lecture Notes - Ravidas, Bengalis, Gupta Empire
25 Jan 2014
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Some scholars don"t even agree that there is a religion called hinduism, instead it is a bunch of different religions branched under the same name. Hindu from sindu from persian- from below the indus valley - what they called a group of people who were not buddhist, muslim, jainist or christian. Edward said scholar/professor at columbia wrote monumental book. Orientalism published in 1978: biases of certain white persons like said effected the teaching of. Hinduism- they viewed it from a protestant bias. German romanticism- had affection for antiquity what is older is better - thus the vedas were highly regarded by these scholars: thought that contemporary hindus have corrupted the beauty of the vedas. Indus valley civilization is now more commonly referred to as the harappa civilization. Indus valley sights are in modern day pakistan and india. Timeline of the indus civilization: c. 6500-5000 bc: food production and pastoral society. Small agrarian settlements: c. 5000-2600 bc: regionalization.
