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Was Hinduism Invented?: Britons, Indians, and the Colonial Construction of Religion

Was Hinduism Invented?: Britons, Indians, and the Colonial Construction of Religion

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Hinduism

ISBN10: 0195166558
ISBN13: 9780195166552
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Apr 28 2005
Pages: 260
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.38
Language: English
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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