Preface
Introduction: The question of a prehistory
Subalternity at the cusp : limits and openings in the Dalit critique
Moral rite before myth and law : death in comparative religion
The time of having-found (God) : languages of Dalit hearsay
The vicissitudes of historical religion
The anomaly of Kabir : historical religion in Dwivedi's Kabir
The pitfalls of a Dalit theology : DR Dharmvir's critique of Dwivedi
System and history in Rajwade's grammar for the Dnyaneswari
The prehistory of historical religion
The suspension of iconoclasm : myth and allegory in the time of deities
Miracle and violence : the allegorical turn in Kabir, Dnyaneswara, and Tukaram
Deity and Daivat : the transfiguration of the folk in Tukaram.