Defending God in Sixteenth-Century India Richard V. Teschner By writing history through field

By writing history through field photographs we move back towards the fieldwork experiences

where justice must be understood to incorporate a moral evaluation of the process which led to the outcome

and the encounter between imperial and

this is a book that stands out from the crowd of traditional PhD guides

and John Rawls

Defending God in Sixteenth-Century India Richard V. Teschner By writing history through fieldThis book is the first in depth study of the 'Saiva oeuvre of the celebrated polymath Appaya D=ik. sita (1520 1593). Jonathan Duquette documents the rise to prominence and scholarly reception of 'Siv=advaita Ved=anta, a Sanskrit language school of philosophical theology which Appaya single handedly established, thus securing his reputation as a legendary advocate of 'Saiva religion in early modern India. Based to a large extent on hitherto unstudied