TY  - GEN
AU  - Veer, Peter van der 
TI  - Imperial encounters : religion and modernity in India and Britain
SN  - 9780691074788
U1  - 291.17 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  -  
KW  - Architects
KW  - Religion and state
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - British colonies
KW  - Asia
KW  - Religions
KW  - Interfaith relations
N1  - 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
ER  -