Was Hinduism invented Britons, Indians, and the 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'
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Oxford University Press
2005, 2005
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 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' |
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| Physical Description: | vi, 249 p. ill., facsims., ports |
| ISBN: | 9780199835690 0199835691 |