Was Hinduism invented [electronic resource] : Britons, Indians, and the colonial construction of religion / Brian K. Pennington.

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Pennington, Brian K. (Brian Kemble)

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Oxford eBooks

Publication details: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 249 p.) : ill., facsims., portsISBN:

0195166558

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294.509034 22

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BL1201

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Summary: Pennington retells the story of Christian's & Hindu's reception of each other in early 19th century Bengal, giving prominence to the power of the respective worldviews to shape the encounter & to help produce the very religions that colonialism thought it 'discovered'.

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Pennington retells the story of Christian's & Hindu's reception of each other in early 19th century Bengal, giving prominence to the power of the respective worldviews to shape the encounter & to help produce the very religions that colonialism thought it 'discovered'.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.