This Encyclopedia covers all aspects of Hinduism in the conventional sense and includes more ethnographic and contemporary material in contrast to the exclusively textual and historical approach of earlier works.

Abhinav Bharat Society; Abhinavagupta; Abortion; Aditi; Advaita; Aesthetics; Agastya; Agni; Ahalya; Ahamkara; Ahimsa; Airavata; Aiyanar; Akhil Bharatiya Sadhu Samaj; Akhil Bharatiya Sant Samiti; Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad; Alakha; Alakshmi; Almsgiving/dana; Alvar; Amaravati; Anand Marg; Anandamayi Ma; Anasuya; Angiras; Anna-prashana (first solid food); Annapurna; Antah-karana; Antal or Andal; Antyeshti (funeral); Apasmara; Apsaras; Aranyakas; Aranyakas; Architecture; Ardhanishvara; Arjuna; Arnold, E.; Art; Artha; Arthashastra; Artha-vada?; Arti; Arundhati; Arya Samaj; Aryabhata; Aryaman; Asana ; Asceticism/tapas; Ashram; ashramas [general entry]; Ashtanga Yoga; Ashvalayana; Ashvins; Asiatick Researches; Asiatick Society of Bengal/Royal Asiatic Society; Astika/nastika; Astika/nastika; Asuniti; Asura; Atman; Atmaram Panderung; Atri; Aurobindo Ghose/Shri Aurobindo; Auroville; authority e.g. scriptures, gurus, priests, scholars, tradition etc. [general entry]; Avatara (Ten, Twenty-Four, Thrity-Nine) including Matsya, Ekasringa, Kurma, Varaha, Narasimha, Vamana, Parashurama, Rama, Krishna and Kalki, as well as amshavatara and purnavatara; Ayodhya; Ayurveda; Badarayana; Badarayana; Bal Gangadhar Tilak; Bal Thackeray; Balak Das; Balambika; Balarama; Balarama; Bali; Ban on widow remarriage; Bankim Chandra Chatterjee; Basava; Basham, A.L.; Bauls; Besant, Annie; Bhagavad-Gita; Bhagavatas; Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh/Osho; Bhajan; Bhakti (as path); Bhakti movement; Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati; Bharat Dharma Mahamandala; Bharati; Bharati, A.; Bharatiya Janata Party; Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan; Bhasa; Bhatrihari; Bhattaji Dikshita; Bhavagupta; Bhedabheda/Dvaitadvaita; Bhikshu; Bhima; Bhima Bhoi; Bhimrao Ram Ambedkar; Bhishma; Bhuta; Biardeau, M.; Bijoy Krishna Goswami; Bindu; Bir Devi; Blavatsky, Madame Helena; Blood sacrifice; Books, comics, newspapers & magazines; Brahm Shankar Misra; Brahma; Brahma Kumaris; Brahma Sutras; Brahmacarya; Brahman; Brahman; Brahmanas; Brahmanas; Brahman-atman; Brahmanism; Brahmo Samaj; Brihaspati; Brockington, J.; Buddhism's Relationship with Hinduism; Buhler, G.; Burnouf, E.; Caitanya; Calendar including seasons (ritu) & months (masa); Candidas; caste [general entry]; Castration & eunuchs; Celibacy; Chandas; Chaudhuri, N.; Child marriage; Chittrai; Chuda Karana (tonsure); Coeurdoux, G.L.; Consecration (abhimantara, abhisheka); Contemporary Movements ???; Contraception; Conversion; Coomaraswamy, A.; cosmogony [general entry]; cosmology including the world egg and other models of the universe, worlds, heavens, netherworlds & hells [general entry]; Courtesans; Dada Lekhraj; Dadoba Panderung; Dakini; Daksha; Dalits/oucastes/untouchables/pancama/ harijans; Dance; Darshana; Dasarajna; Dasgupta, S.; Dashahra/Dussehra; Dasharatha; Dattatreya; Day of Brahma; de Nobili, R.; Debendranath Tagore; Deccan Educational Society; deities, gods and goddesses [general entry]; Deussen, P.; Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft; Dev Samaj; Devadasis; Devaki; Devi Mahatmya; Dhanurveda; Dharma; Dharmashastras; Dhenu; Dhonde Kehav Karve; Dikpalas; Diksha; Divali; Divination; Divine Light Mission/Premis; Divorce; Domestic altars (worship at); domestic and family deities; Doniger, W.; Dow, A.; Dowry; Dowry death; Drama; Draupadi; Drona; Dubois, J.A.; Dumont, L.; Duperron, A.; Durga/Amba; Durgapuja/Navratri; Dvaita; Dvaraka; Dvija/dvijati/twice-born; Dyaus Pitar; Eck, D.; Edgerton, F.; Education; Eidlitz, W.; Elements/bhutas (prithivi, apas, vayu, agni, akasha); Eliade, M.; Emerson, R.W.; ethics [general entry]; Euthanasia; Farquhar, J.N.; Fasting; Feminism; festivals/utsava [general entry]; Fillozat, J.; Film; Fire/Homa /Agnihotra; Foeticide ; Food (cf. festivals, caste etc.); Forms of marriage (or of getting a wife): Brahma; Arsha; Daiva; Gandharva; Asura; Rakshasa; Paishaca; Asura; Frauwallner, E.; Gana; Ganapatyas; Gandhari; Gandharva; Gandharvaveda; Gandhi Jayanti; Ganesha; Ganeshacaturthi; Ganga; Ganga Dasahara; Gangesha Upadhyaya;