Hinduism in India
The Early Period
Greg Bailey (Ed)
Sage Publication
215 pages; Rs 620
It is difficult, even impossible, to delineate the real meanings or fundamentals of the Hindu religion not only because of its great inner diversity and plurality but also because Hindus do not have one sacred book that can be considered the sole authoritative source of the religion’s essential doctrines. Greg Bailey, the editor of this volume, has referred to the specificity of Hinduism by observing that “the emergence of term ‘Hinduism’ around the beginning of the nineteenth century resulted in the quest to find some unity in the plurality
