Religion, science, and empire
Subtitle: classifying Hinduism and Islam in British India
By: Peter Gottschalk
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
ISBN-13: 9780195393019
Subjects: Religion and science; Historiography; Religion and politics; Religion and sociology; History
Description: Peter Gottschalk offers a compelling study of how, through the British implementation of scientific taxonomy in the subcontinent, Britons and Indians identified an inherent divide between mutually antagonistic religious communities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Religion, science, and scientism; title: Cartography, the ideal of science, and the place of religion; title: First interlude : the dynamics of comparison and classification; title: Christocentric travel writing : dynamics of comparison and classification; title: Second interlude : the five modes of comparison; title: Humanist travel writing : ascent of empiricism and the on the spot; title: Third interlude : classification in the natural sciences; title: Categories to count on : religion and caste in the census; title: Raja, a ghost, and a tribe : studies in ethnology, folklore, and religion; title: Popularizing Chainpur's past: archaeology in place and in museums; title: Education : teaching scientism; title: Chainpur today.