Was Hinduism invented?
Subtitle: Britons, Indians, and colonial construction of religion
By: Brian K. Pennington.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Hinduism -- India; India -- Social life and customs; India -- Religious life and customs; India -- Colonial influence
Description: Pennington retells the story of Christian's and Hindu's reception of each other in early 19th century Bengal, giving prominence to the power of the respective worldviews to shape the encounter and to help produce the very religions that colonialism thought it 'discovered'.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-239) and index.