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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos; University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Hindu Pluralism; Elaine M. Fisher complicates the traditional scholarly narrative of the unification of Hinduism. By calling into question the colonial categories implicit in the term “sectarianism;” Fisher’s work excavates the pluralistic textures of precolonial Hinduism in the centuries prior to British intervention. Drawing on previously unpublished sources in Sanskrit; Tamil; and Telugu; Fisher argues that the performance of plural religious identities in public space in Indian early modernity paved the way for the emergence of a distinctively non-Western form of religious pluralism. This work provides a critical resource for understanding how Hinduism developed in the early modern period; a crucial era that set the tenor for religion's role in public life in India through the present day.