Scholarly worlds and popular texts: The Bhagavad Gita's vernacular communities in early modern India
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The Bhagavad GÄ«tÄ is often thought of as the popular religious text par excellence in modern Hinduism. A substantial amount of scholarship has argued that its modern status as the central text of Hinduism is grounded in its 19th-century colonial and nat
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