Rethinking religion in India : the colonial construction of Hinduism / edited by Esther Bloch, Marianne Keppens and Rajaram Hegde.

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TextSeries: Routledge South Asian religion series ; 4Publication details: London ; Routledge, 2010. New York :Description: xv, 192 p. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780415548908 (cloth : alk. paper)
041554890X (hc : alk. paper)

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294.509034 BLO

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.

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