Imperial Encounters Religion and Modernity in India and Britain

Name: Imperial Encounters Religion and Modernity in India and Britain
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ISBN: 9780691074788

ISBN-10: 069107478X

ISBN-13: 9780691074788

Edition: 2001

Authors: Peter van der Veer

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Exploring the claim that historical experience of empire is common to both the colonizer and the colonized, this work takes the case of religion to examine the mutual impact of Britain's colonization of India upon Indian and British culture.

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 4/9/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 7.13" wide x 8.62" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.682



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Secularity and Religion


The Separation of Church and State


Religion


Concluding Remarks



The Moral State: Religion, Nation, and Empire


The Moral State in Britain


The Colonial Mission in India


Concluding Remarks



The Spirits of the Age: Spiritualism and Political Radicalism


British Spirits


India's Spiritual Heritage


Concluding Remarks



Moral Muscle: Masculinity and Its Religious Uses


Muscular Christianity


Hindustani Honor


The Internal Enemy


Concluding Remarks



Monumental Texts: Orientalism and the Critical Edition of India's National Heritage


Muuml;ller's Science


India's Adoption of German Wissenschaft


Texts and the Nationalist Imaginaire


Speaking, Writing, Watching


Concluding Remarks



Aryan Origins


The Aryan Myth


From Language to Skulls


Race, Class and Criminality


Concluding Remarks


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index