The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali: A Biography

Contents\nDramatis Personae\nPreface\nChapter 1. Reading the Yoga Sutra in the Twenty-First Century: Modern Challenges, Ancient Strategies\nChapter 2. Patanjali, the Yoga Sutra, and Indian Philosophy\nChapter 3. Henry Thomas Colebrooke and the Western “Discovery” of the Yoga Sutra\nChapter 4. Yoga Sutra Agonistes: Hegel and the German Romantics\nChapter 5. Rajendralal Mitra: India’s Forgotten Pioneer of Yoga Sutra Scholarship\nChapter 6. The Yoga of the Magnetosphere: The Yoga Sutra and the Theosophical Society\nChapter 7. Swami Vivekananda and the Mainstreaming of the Yoga Sutra\nChapter 8. The Yoga Sutra in the Muslim World\nChapter 9. The Yoga Sutra Becomes a Classic\nChapter 10. Ishvara\nChapter 11. Journeys East, Journeys West: The Yoga Sutra in the Early Twentieth Century\nChapter 12. The Strange Case of T. M. Krishnamacharya\nChapter 13. Yoga Sutra 2.0\nNotes\nSuggestions for Further Reading\nIndex