Hinduism gained ground in the region in the early centuries of the Common Era because it provided elites with a fully-fleshed metaphysical package along with literacy.
Historians Romila Thapar, Kumkum Roy, and Preeti Gulati were part of a session titled ‘Women Writing History: Three Generations’ at the Kerala Literature Festival.
Throughout this report, religious switching refers to a change between the religious group in which a person says they were raised (during their childhood) and their religious identity now (in ...