Was Hinduism invented? : Britons, Indians, and colonial construction of religion
Pennington retells the story of Christian's & Hindu's reception of each other in early 19th century Bengal, giving prominence to the power of the respective worldviews to shape the encounter & to help produce the very religions that colonialism thought it 'discovered'
1 online resource (vi, 249 pages)
9780198037293, 9781423776857, 9780195166552, 0198037295, 1423776852, 0195166558
70009986
A Note on Transliteration and Archaisms; 1. Introduction; 2. The Other Without and the Other Within; 3. "Scarcely Less Bloody than Lascivious"; 4. Polymorphic Nature, Polytheistic Culture, and the Orientalist Imaginaire; 5. Constructing Colonial Dharma in Calcutta; 6. Colonial Legacies: Some Concluding Thoughts; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y