Introduction: Foreword into the Past
A Chronology

I. On Being Hindu

Hinduism by Any Other Name
Are Hindus Monotheists or Polytheists?
Three (or More) Forms of the Three (or More) - Fold Path in Hinduism
The Concept of Heresy in Hinduism
Eating Karma
Medical and Mythical Constructions of the Body in Sakskrit Texts
Death and Rebirth in Hinduism
Forgetting and Re-awakening to Incarnation
Assume the Position: The Fight over the Body of Yoga
The Toleration of Intolerance in Hinduism
The Politics of Hinduism Tomorrow

II. Gods, Humans and Anti-Gods

Saguna and Nirguna Images of the Deity
You Can't Get Here from There: The Logical Paradox of Hindu Creation Myths
Together Apart: Changing Ethical Implications of Hindu Cosmologies
God's Body, or, the Lingam Made Flesh: Conflicts over the Representation of Shiva
Sacrifice and Subsitution: Ritual Mystification and Mythical Demystification in Hinduism
The Scrapbook of Undeserved Salvation: The Kedara Khanda of the Skanda Purana

III. Women and Other Genders

Why Should a Brahmin Tell You Whom to Marry?: A Deconstruction of the Laws of Manu
Saranyu/Samjna: The Sun and the Shadow
The Clever Wife in Indian Mythology
Rings of Rejection and Recognition in Ancient India
The Third Nature: Gender Inversions in the Kamasutra
Bisexuality and Transsexuality Among the Hindu Gods
Transsexual Transformations of Subjectivity and Memory in Hindu Mythology

IV. Kama and other Seductions

The Control of Addiction in Ancient India
Reading the Kamasutra: It Isn't All About Sex
The Mythology of the Kamasutra
From Kama to Karma: The Resurgence of Puritanism in Contemporary India

V. Horses and Other Animals

The Ambivalence of Ahimsa
Zoomorphism in Ancient India: Humans More Bestial Than Beasts
The Mythology of Horses in India
The Submarine Mare in the Mythology of Shiva
Indra as the Stallion's Wife
Dogs as Dalits in Indian Literature
Sacred Cows and Beefeaters

VI. Illusion and Reality in the Hindu Epics

Impermanence and Eternity in Hindu Epic, Art and Performance
Shadows of the Ramayana
Women in the Mahabharata
The History of Ekalavya

VII. On Not Being Hindu

"I Have Scinde": Orientalism and Guilt
Doniger O'Flaherty on Doniger
You Can't Make an Omelette
The Forest-Dweller

Appendix I: Limericks on Hinduism
Appendix II: Essays on Hinduism by Wendy Doniger
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index