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This Hindu reform movement – representing modernist hybridisation – has been studied by the Dutch professor P. van Veer in his Imperial Encounters (2001).84 Their discourse arose as a …
So the Orientalists and Hindu reformers, by relying on Brahmin scriptures, replicated Brahmin orthodox discourse and unwittingly reproduced their orthodox ideology. It was an ideology making the Brahmins into …
Avoiding pitfalls: Bend forward from the hips, not the Yoga tops waist. Reach your chest forward as you go down. Sit on the front edge of Yoga topsa chair, …
Modernist yoga – re-constructing the yoga discourse Even if Orientalist researchers like Max Mueller claimed that they were scientists (often philologists – the combination of literary studies, history and …
The Orientalists should therefore not be classified, as they often are, as scientific outsiders to the yoga tradition’, but actually as a crucial internal’ part of the yoga discourse. …