The language of disenchantment : Protestant literalism and colonial discourse in British India /
Yelle, Robert A.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
c2013.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-284) and index.
Orientalism and the language of disenchantment -- "A disease of language": the attack on Hindu myth as verbal idolatry -- "One step from Babel to Pentecost": colonial codification, universal languages, and the debate over Roman transliteration -- "Vain repetitions": the attack on Hindu mantras -- The Hindu Moses: Christian polemics against Jewish ritual and the secularization of Hindu law.
Hinduism and culture
Language and languages
Hinduism
Protestantism