Emphasizing the anthropology of popular Hinduism are the works by Lawrence A. Babb, The Divine Hierarchy: Popular Hinduism in Central India (1975); McKim Marriott (ed.), Village India: Studies in the Little Community (1955, reprinted 1986); and Milton Singer (ed.), Traditional India: Structure and Change (1958, reissued 1976). A classic case history of the process known as Sanskritization is M.N. Srinivas, Religion and Society Among the Coorgs of South India (1952, reissued 1978).
Valuable studies of pilgrimage include A.W. Entwistle, Braj: Center of Krishna Pilgrimage (1987); Ann Grodzins Gold, Fruitful Journeys: The Ways of the Rajasthani Pilgrims (1988); and William S. Sax, Mountain Goddess: Gender and Politics in a Himalayan Pilgrimage (1991). Hinduism and other traditions
Developments in the Hindu tradition as it confronted other religions and modernity are covered in D.S. Sarma, Studies in the Renaissance of Hinduism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1944); Wilhelm Halbfass, India and Europe: An Essay in Understanding (1988; originally published in German, 1981); and Peter van der Veer, Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India (1994). Of special interest are the texts collected and translated by Richard Fox Young, Resistant Hinduism: Sanskrit Sources on Anti-Christian Apologetics in Early Nineteenth-Century India (1981). Wendy Doniger Brian K. Smith