Chapter 1. Reading the Yoga Sutra in the Twenty-First Century: Modern Challenges, Ancient Strategies

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Dramatis Personae vii
4. Preface xv
5. Chapter 1. Reading the Yoga Sutra in the Twenty-First Century: Modern Challenges, Ancient Strategies 1
6. Chapter 2. Patanjali, the Yoga Sutra, and Indian Philosophy 18
7. Chapter 3. Henry Thomas Colebrooke and the Western “Discovery” of the Yoga Sutra 53
8. Chapter 4. Yoga Sutra Agonistes: Hegel and the German Romantics 81
9. Chapter 5. Rajendralal Mitra: India’s Forgotten Pioneer of Yoga Sutra Scholarship 92
10. Chapter 6. The Yoga of the Magnetosphere: The Yoga Sutra and the Theosophical Society 103
11. Chapter 7. Swami Vivekananda and the Mainstreaming of the Yoga Sutra 116
12. Chapter 8. The Yoga Sutra in the Muslim World 143
13. Chapter 9. The Yoga Sutra Becomes a Classic 159
14. Chapter 10. Ishvara 172
15. Chapter 11. Journeys East, Journeys West: The Yoga Sutra in the Early Twentieth Century 182
16. Chapter 12. The Strange Case of T. M. Krishnamacharya 197
17. Chapter 13. Yoga Sutra 2.0 225
18. Notes 237
19. Suggestions for Further Reading 249
20. Index 261