Rethinking Buddhism: Text, Context, Contestation deals with textual traditions, contextualization, and contestation in Indian Buddhism. The essays in this volume envision, explore, and challenge some of the well-established views to investigate Buddhist sources and contemplate alternative theories on origin, development of early Schools, and other fundamentals.

On the one hand, there are reassessments and reinterpretations of the established hypotheses; on the other, new voices are raised to re-examine the traditional opinions on narratives of understanding the philosophical and literary approaches.

This volume examines real historical contexts and finds whether any kind of contestations occurred in different sects of Buddhism and with other existing religions.

Rethinking Buddhism: Text, Context, Contestation, Anand Singh, Hardcover, 448 pp, $40.00

The author, Anand Singh, is a young scholar. He has done his Masters and Ph.D. in Ancient Indian History from the University of Lucknow. His earlier book " Pracheen Bhartiya Dharma evam Darshana" (2003) has been well received by the students of Indian history. Some of his papers and book reviews have been published in internationally renowned journals. His special areas of interests are tourism studies, evolution of social institutions and gender studies. Presently, he is Lecturer in the Institute of Management Sciences, University of Lucknow.