Was Hinduism Invented?: Britons, Indians, and the Colonial Construction of ReligionOxford University Press, 28. apr. 2005 - 260 sider Drawing on a large body of previously untapped literature, including documents from the Church Missionary Society and Bengali newspapers, Brian Pennington offers a fascinating portrait of the process by which "Hinduism" came into being. He argues against the common idea that the modern construction of religion in colonial India was simply a fabrication of Western Orientalists and missionaries. Rather, he says, it involved the active agency and engagement of Indian authors as well, who interacted, argued, and responded to British authors over key religious issues such as image-worship, sati, tolerance, and conversion. |
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... India Company and the British government of India, it was the first scholarly publication on South Asia widely available in Britain. Second is the final 1832 decision by the crown in London, in the face of a massive and organized Hindu ...
... India Company and the British government of India, it was the first scholarly publication on South Asia widely available in Britain. Second is the final 1832 decision by the crown in London, in the face of a massive and organized Hindu ...
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... India prior to the arrival of the British introduces an almost irreparable disruption in Indian traditions that can only alienate contemporary Indians from their own traditions. I regard the appropriation of the authority to pronounce ...
... India prior to the arrival of the British introduces an almost irreparable disruption in Indian traditions that can only alienate contemporary Indians from their own traditions. I regard the appropriation of the authority to pronounce ...
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... India, then, is to enter ineluctably into contemporary struggles waged by scholars and Hindus alike to delineate Hindu belief and practice for the postcolonial world, and in no way can it be a purely academic exercise. Shifting British ...
... India, then, is to enter ineluctably into contemporary struggles waged by scholars and Hindus alike to delineate Hindu belief and practice for the postcolonial world, and in no way can it be a purely academic exercise. Shifting British ...
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... India from the weakening central powers in Delhi, making the British de facto rulers of the region. The next hundred years saw the East India Company emerge full force, through conquest and treaty, as the colonial governors of most of ...
... India from the weakening central powers in Delhi, making the British de facto rulers of the region. The next hundred years saw the East India Company emerge full force, through conquest and treaty, as the colonial governors of most of ...
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... India and Hinduism. Kate Teltscher observes that with the British accession to the diwani in 1765, the practices and sites for the representation of India fundamentally changed, and with the defeat of Tipu Sultan in the south in 1799 ...
... India and Hinduism. Kate Teltscher observes that with the British accession to the diwani in 1765, the practices and sites for the representation of India fundamentally changed, and with the defeat of Tipu Sultan in the south in 1799 ...
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2 The Other Without and the Other Within | 23 |
3 Scarcely Less Bloody than Lascivious | 59 |
4 Polymorphic Nature Polytheistic Culture and the Orientalist Imaginaire | 101 |
5 Constructing Colonial Dharma in Calcutta | 139 |
Some Concluding Thoughts | 167 |
Notes | 191 |
Works Cited | 225 |
Index | 241 |
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