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Leslie, Julia, Authority and Meaning in Indian Religions. Hinduism and the Case of Vālmīki

Leslie, Julia, Authority and Meaning in Indian Religions. Hinduism and the Case of Vālmīki Indo-Iran J (2007) 50: 53–55 DOI 10.1007/s10783-007-9036-z B O O K R E V I E W Leslie, Julia, Authority and Meaning in Indian Religions. Hinduism and the Case of V ¯ alm¯ıki Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate 2004, X + 241 pp., 1 frontispice, 5 plates. ISBN 0-7546-3431-0 £ 17.99 (Pbk), 0-7546-3430-2 (Hbk). £ 49.50 Peter Schreiner © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007 The subtitle describes the book better than the main title: there is little to justify the plural ‘Indian religions’ (‘religious communities’ in the parlance of the book), and ‘authority’ features neither in the chapter titles nor in the index (being represented by ‘sacred text’). What Julia Leslie (JL) presents is a critical, text-historical study of the figure of V¯alm¯ıki. The ‘case of V¯alm¯ıki’ was indeed a ‘case’, a dispute with legal implications caused by a passing reference in a radio broadcast to the traditional narrative or mythological motif of V¯alm¯ıki having been a bandit before becoming a holy man, author of the R¯am¯ayan . a and God for a community of dalits named after him. Given the fact that JL was asked (by the Bhagvan Valmiki Action Committee) for the report which led to this book http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Indo-Iranian Journal Brill

Leslie, Julia, Authority and Meaning in Indian Religions. Hinduism and the Case of Vālmīki

Schreiner, Peter
Indo-Iranian Journal , Volume 50 (1): 53 – Jan 1, 2007
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© 2007 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Indo-Iran J (2007) 50: 53–55 DOI 10.1007/s10783-007-9036-z B O O K R E V I E W Leslie, Julia, Authority and Meaning in Indian Religions. Hinduism and the Case of V ¯ alm¯ıki Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate 2004, X + 241 pp., 1 frontispice, 5 plates. ISBN 0-7546-3431-0 £ 17.99 (Pbk), 0-7546-3430-2 (Hbk). £ 49.50 Peter Schreiner © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007 The subtitle describes the book better than the main title: there is little to justify the plural ‘Indian religions’ (‘religious communities’ in the parlance of the book), and ‘authority’ features neither in the chapter titles nor in the index (being represented by ‘sacred text’). What Julia Leslie (JL) presents is a critical, text-historical study of the figure of V¯alm¯ıki. The ‘case of V¯alm¯ıki’ was indeed a ‘case’, a dispute with legal implications caused by a passing reference in a radio broadcast to the traditional narrative or mythological motif of V¯alm¯ıki having been a bandit before becoming a holy man, author of the R¯am¯ayan . a and God for a community of dalits named after him. Given the fact that JL was asked (by the Bhagvan Valmiki Action Committee) for the report which led to this book

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