Imperial encounters : religion and modernity in India and Britain
Veer, Peter van der
Imperial encounters : religion and modernity in India and Britain - Princeton Princeton University Press 2001 - x,205p.
Content:
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 3
Secularity and religion 14
The separation of church and state 16
Religion 24
Concluding remarks 28
The moral state: religion, nation, and empire30
The moral state in Britain 34
The Colonial Mission in India 41
Concluding remarks 53
The spirits of the age: spiritualism and political radicalism 55
British spirits 58
India's spiritual heritage 66
Concluding remarks 77
Moral muscle: masculinity and its religious uses 83
Muscular Christianity 85
Hindustani honor 94
The internal enemy 101
Concluding remarks 104
Monumental texts: Orientalism and the critical edition of India's national heritage 106
Müller's science 107
India's adoption of German Wissenschaft 116
Texts and the nationalist imaginaire 122
Speaking, writing, watching 129
Concluding remarks 131
Aryan origins 134
The Aryan myth 136
From language to skulls 144
Race, class and criminality 150
Concluding remarks 155
Conclusion 158
Notes 161
Bibliography 179
Index 191
9780691074788
Architects
Religion and state
Great Britain
British colonies
Asia
Religions
Interfaith relations
291.17 / VEE
Imperial encounters : religion and modernity in India and Britain - Princeton Princeton University Press 2001 - x,205p.
Content:
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 3
Secularity and religion 14
The separation of church and state 16
Religion 24
Concluding remarks 28
The moral state: religion, nation, and empire30
The moral state in Britain 34
The Colonial Mission in India 41
Concluding remarks 53
The spirits of the age: spiritualism and political radicalism 55
British spirits 58
India's spiritual heritage 66
Concluding remarks 77
Moral muscle: masculinity and its religious uses 83
Muscular Christianity 85
Hindustani honor 94
The internal enemy 101
Concluding remarks 104
Monumental texts: Orientalism and the critical edition of India's national heritage 106
Müller's science 107
India's adoption of German Wissenschaft 116
Texts and the nationalist imaginaire 122
Speaking, writing, watching 129
Concluding remarks 131
Aryan origins 134
The Aryan myth 136
From language to skulls 144
Race, class and criminality 150
Concluding remarks 155
Conclusion 158
Notes 161
Bibliography 179
Index 191
9780691074788
Architects
Religion and state
Great Britain
British colonies
Asia
Religions
Interfaith relations
291.17 / VEE