TY - BOOK AU - Ravishankar, Akshara TI - Scholarly worlds and popular texts: The Bhagavad Gita's vernacular communities in early modern India SN - 0069-9659 PB - Contributions to Indian Sociology KW - Dumont KW - Fame KW - Gṛhastha KW - Purity KW - World Renunciation KW - Caste N2 - The Bhagavad Gītā 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1177/00699659241286568 ER -