Rethinking religion in India
Subtitle: the colonial construction of Hinduism
By: edited by Esther Bloch, Marianne Keppens, and Rajaram Hegde.
Contributors: Bloch, Esther.; Keppens, Marianne.; Hegde, Rajaram.
Series: Routledge South Asian religion series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415548908; 9780203862896
Subjects: Hinduism -- Historiography; Hinduism -- History -- 18th century; Hinduism -- History -- 19th century; India -- Civilization -- 18th century; India -- Civilization -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : rethinking religion in India / Marianne Keppens and Esther Bloch; title: Hindus and others / David N. Lorenzen; title: Hindu religious identity with special reference to the origin and significance of the term Hinduism, c. 1787-1947 / Geoffrey A. Oddie; title: Representing religion in colonial India / John Zavos; title: Colonialism and religion / Sharada Sugirtharajah; title: Women, the freedom movement, and Sanskrit : notes on religion and colonialism from the ethnographic present / Laurie L. Patton; title: Colonialism, Hinduism, and the discourse of religion / Richard King; title: Who invented Hinduism? : rethinking religion in India / Timothy Fitzgerald; title: Orientalism, postcolonialism, and the construction of religion / S.N. Balagangadhara; title: The colonial construction of what / Jakob De Roover and Sarah Claerhout.