Was Hinduism Invented?: Britons, Indians, and the Colonial Construction of ReligionOxford University Press, 28.04.2005 - 260 Seiten 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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... early drafts with great care and interest. The Center for Research Libraries generously loaned me most of the volumes of the Asiatick Researches for an extended period of time. Gillian Evison of the Indian Institute in Oxford helped me ...
... early drafts with great care and interest. The Center for Research Libraries generously loaned me most of the volumes of the Asiatick Researches for an extended period of time. Gillian Evison of the Indian Institute in Oxford helped me ...
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... early interest he took in my personal and intellectual well-being, and he remains for me a model of passionate and honest inquiry, warm collegiality, and principled scholarship. My sons Isaiah and Immanuel have been a steady source of ...
... early interest he took in my personal and intellectual well-being, and he remains for me a model of passionate and honest inquiry, warm collegiality, and principled scholarship. My sons Isaiah and Immanuel have been a steady source of ...
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... early decades of the nineteenth century, but the establishment of the Indian National Congress in 1885 signaled the shift to a recognizably nationalist ideology. An association of English-educated, elite Indians had begun, quietly at ...
... early decades of the nineteenth century, but the establishment of the Indian National Congress in 1885 signaled the shift to a recognizably nationalist ideology. An association of English-educated, elite Indians had begun, quietly at ...
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... early nineteenth century by a rapidly spreading Indophobia on the rise of a racist science that legitimated the subjugation of Indians.9 No one would now challenge the claim that imperial ambition both fed and fed off of the practices ...
... early nineteenth century by a rapidly spreading Indophobia on the rise of a racist science that legitimated the subjugation of Indians.9 No one would now challenge the claim that imperial ambition both fed and fed off of the practices ...
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... early nineteenth century and increasingly so since then, Indians have resorted to western categories and concepts or reinterpreted Indian concepts in western ways. Halbfass maintained that the European, especially British presence in ...
... early nineteenth century and increasingly so since then, Indians have resorted to western categories and concepts or reinterpreted Indian concepts in western ways. Halbfass maintained that the European, especially British presence in ...
Inhalt
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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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ancient Anglican Anti-Catholicism Asiatic Society Asiatick Researches Asiatick Society authority Bengal Bhabanicaran brahman Brian K Britain British India Britons Buchanan Calcutta Candrika¯’s Carey caste Catholic character Chris Christianity in India Church Missionary Society claim Clapham Sect classes colonial Comaroff communities concept construction of Hinduism critical culture Delhi described Dharma Dharma Sabha discourse divine Druids Dubois duism early East India elite encounter English European evangelical foreign heathen Hindoos Hindu nation Hindu-Christian Hindus and Christians historians human ideas identity ideology idolatry images imagined Indomania Indophobia issue John Jones’s journal knowledge kulin laborers literature London McCutcheon mission Missionary Papers modern moral native nineteenth century Orientalist Oxford pagan political poor popular postcolonial Protestant reform religion religious studies representation rite ritual Sama¯ca¯r Candrika Sanskrit satı scholars Serampore social Society’s spiritual study of religion subcontinent texts theological tion University Press Ward Ward’s western Wilberforce Wilford William Jones William Wilberforce worship
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