Preface: The man or the rabbit in the moon
Introduction: Working with available light
Time and space in India : 50 million to 50,000 BCE
Civilization in the Indus Valley : 50,000 to 1500 BCE
Between the ruins and the text : 2000 to 1500 BCE
Humans, animals, and gods in the Rig Veda : 1500 to 1000 BCE
Sacrifice in the Brahmanas : 800 to 500 BCE
Renunciation in the Upanishads : 600 to 200 BCE
The three (or is it four?) aims of life in the Hindu imaginary
Women and ogresses in the Ramayana : 400 BCE to 200 CE
Violence in the Mahabharata : 300 BCE to 300 CE
Dharma in the Mahabharata : 300 BCE to 300 CE
Escape clauses in the Shastras : 100 BCE to 400 CE
Bhakti in South India : 100 BCE to 900 CE
Goddesses and gods in the early Puranas : 300 to 600 CE
Sects and sex in the Tantric Puranas and the Tantras : 600 to 900 CE
Fusion and rivalry under the Delhi sultanate : 650 to 1500 CE
Avatar and accidental grace in the later Puranas : 800 to 1500 CE
Philosophical feuds in South India and Kashmir : 800 to 1300 CE
Dialogue and tolerance under the Mughals : 1500 to 1700 CE
Hinduism under the Mughals : 1500 to 1700 CE
Caste, class, and conversion under the British Raj : 1600 to 1900 CE
Suttee and reform in the twilight of the Raj : 1800 to 1947 CE
Hindus in America : 1900-
The past in the present : 1950-
Inconclusion, or the abuse of history.