Rethinking religion in India : the colonial construction of Hinduism /

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Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Description:xv, 192 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Routledge South Asian religion series ; 4
Routledge South Asian religion series ; 4.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8378840
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Other authors / contributors:Bloch, Esther.
Keppens, Marianne.
Hegde, Rajaram.
ISBN:9780415548908 (cloth : alk. paper)
041554890X (hbk : alk. paper)
9780203862896 (ebook)
0203862899 (ebook)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : rethinking religion in India / Marianne Keppens and Esther Bloch
  • Hindus and others / David N. Lorenzen
  • Hindu religious identity with special reference to the origin and significance of the term Hinduism, c. 1787-1947 / Geoffrey A. Oddie
  • Representing religion in colonial India / John Zavos
  • Colonialism and religion / Sharada Sugirtharajah
  • Women, the freedom movement, and Sanskrit : notes on religion and colonialism from the ethnographic present / Laurie L. Patton
  • Colonialism, Hinduism, and the discourse of religion / Richard King
  • Who invented Hinduism? : rethinking religion in India / Timothy Fitzgerald
  • Orientalism, postcolonialism, and the construction of religion / S.N. Balagangadhara
  • The colonial construction of what? / Jakob De Roover and Sarah Claerhout.