Religious Authority in South Asia: Generating the Guru

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1. Gurus and Their Contexts in South Asia: An Introduction
2. How the Guru Lost His Power: Public Anxieties of Tantric Knowledge in the Sanskrit Vetāla Tales
3. The Guru Function in the Emergence of Marathi Literature in Thirteenth-Century India
4. Guru Dādu- in the Perception of His Direct Disciples
5. Canonization of Bhakti Gurus: A Missing Link between Jai Singh II and Haris´candra
6. The Emergence of the Social in the Service of the Guru
7. Between Sagacity and Scandal: Celibacy, Sexuality and a Guru in Nineteenth-Century Punjab
8. The Occluded Guru or the Guru as Gardener: C. Jinarajadasa’s Theosophical Universe
9. Inversions of Kim: The Victorian Childhood of J. Krishnamurti
10. The Vaidika’s Limits: Candras´ekharendra Sarasvatī Svāmī (1894– 1994) and Tamil Brahmin Guruship
11. The Fiction of Ecumenical Universalism: Where Gurus Do Not Matter
12. Between the Letter and the Spirit: Gandhi’s Orbit
13. Guru Sex: Charisma, Proxemic Desire, and the Haptic Logics of the Guru-Disciple Relationship
14. Manufacturing Charisma in the Metropolis
15. Narrating the Spiritualized Life
16. The Gurus of a Post-Colonial Education: An Autobiographical Note
Selected Publications by Vasudha Dalmia
Index