DIALOGUES ON THE 'BHAGAVAD GITA'

Richard H. Davis, The Bhagavad Gita: A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books) (Princeton & Oxford: Princeton U. Press, 2015) ("Like many great religious works, the Bhagavad Gita has outlived its own time and place of composition. The work has lived a vivid and contentious existence over the centuries since, though readings and recitations, translations and commentaries that have reinscribed this classical Indian work into many new currents and disputes. Medieval Brahman scholars and Krishna devotees, British colonial scholars, German romantics, globe-trotting Hindu gurus, Indian anticolonial freedom fighters, Western students, and spiritual seekers have all engaged in new dialogues with the Gita." Id. at 6. Also see, generally, Wendy Doniger, "War and Peace in the Bhagavad Gita," New York Review of Books, 12/4/2014.).