CHAPTER 1
The Bhagavad Gita in the Time of Its Composition
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CHAPTER 2
Krishna and His Gita in Medieval India
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Krishna Warrier, A. G. 1999. Śrīmad Bhagavad Gītā bhās≥ya of Sri Samokarācārya: With Text in Devanagari and English Rendering. Madras: Sri Ramakrishna Math.
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CHAPTER 3
Passages from India
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Isherwood, Christopher. 1965. Ramakrishna and His Disciples. London: Methuen and Co.
Jackson, Carl T. 1994. Vedanta for the West: The Ramakrishna Movement in the United States. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Robinson, Catherine A. 2006. Interpretations of the Bhagavad-Gītā and Images of the Hindu Tradition: The Song of the Lord. London: Routledge.
Schwab, Raymond. 1984. The Oriental Renaissance: Europe’s Rediscovery of India and the East, 1680–1880. New York: Columbia University Press.
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CHAPTER 4
Krishna, the Gita, and the Indian Nation
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Heehs, Peter. 2008. The Lives of Sri Aurobindo. New York: Columbia University Press.
Minor, Robert N. 1986. Modern Indian Interpreters of the Bhagavadgita. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
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CHAPTER 5
Modern Gitas: Translations
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