Imperial Encounters : : Religion and Modernity in India and Britain / / Peter van der Veer.
Picking up on Edward Said's claim that the historical experience of empire is common to both the colonizer and the colonized, Peter van der Veer takes the case of religion to examine the mutual impact of Britain's colonization of India on Indian and British culture. He shows that national...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2001 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- CHAPTER ONE. Secularity and Religion
- CHAPTER TWO. The Moral State: Religion, Nation, and Empire
- CHAPTER THREE. The Spirits of the Age: Spiritualism and Political Radicalism
- CHAPTER FOUR. Moral Muscle: Masculinity and Its Religious Uses
- CHAPTER FIVE. Monumental Texts: Orientalism and the Critical Edition of India's National Heritage
- CHAPTER SIX. Aryan Origins
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index