Religious Authority in South Asia : Generating the Guru (Paperback)

1 Introduction: Contextualizing gurus in South Asia 2 How the guru lost his power: Public anxieties of tantric knowledge in the Sanskrit vet?la tales 3 The guru function in the emergence of Marathi literature in thirteenth-century India 4 Guru D?d? in the perception of his direct disciples 5 Canonization of bhakti gurus: A missing link between Jai Singh II and Hari?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: Candra?ekharendra Sarasvat? Sv?m? (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 17 Selected publications by Vasudha Dalmia