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Reorienting the Past: Performances of Hindu Textual Heritage in Contemporary India

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  1. McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    Andrea Marion Pinkney

  2. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, Singapore

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Pinkney, A.M., Acri, A. Reorienting the Past: Performances of Hindu Textual Heritage in Contemporary India. Hindu Studies 17, 221–228 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11407-014-9143-0

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