Abstract

This contribution offers a review of The Snake and the Mongoose: The Emergence of Identity in Early Indian Religion by Nathan McGovern (2019).

Highlights

  • This book revisits the religious landscape of ancient North India in terms of its origins and [1] identity formations

  • It offers a new model to study the emergence of Brahmanism, Buddhism, and Jainism that effectively moves away from a binary model of strife between Brahmanical and non-Brahmanical traditions

  • McGovern argues that modern scholarship has unjustly projected the image of the “snake and the mongoose” onto the development of ancient Indian religions

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Introduction

This book revisits the religious landscape of ancient North India in terms of its origins and [1] identity formations. The Snake and the Mongoose: The Emergence of Identity in Early Indian Religion, written by Nathan McGovern

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