The ^ASnake and the Mongoose

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The ^ASnake and the Mongoose is written by Nathan McGovern and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190640812 (ISBN 10) and 9780190640811 (ISBN 13).

In The Snake and The Mongoose, Nathan McGovern turns the commonly-accepted model of the origins of early Indian religions on its head. Instead of assuming a fundamental dichotomy between Brahmanical and non-Brahmanical in ancient India, McGovern shows that there were many different groups who all saw themselves as Brahmanical, and out of whose contestation with one another the distinction between Brahmanical and non-Brahmanical emerged.