TY  - GEN
AU  - Gottschalk, Peter
TI  - Religion, Science, and Empire : classifying Hinduism and Islam in British India
SN  - 9780195393019
U1  - 306.60954 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Religion and science
KW  - Religion and politics
KW  - Religion and sociology
KW  - India--Chainpur (Bihar)
KW  - Historiography
N1  - Contents
Acknowledgements xi
List of Illustrations xv
Term Glossary xvii
Place Glossary xix
Introduction 3
1.Religion, Science, and Scientism 20
2.Cartography, the Ideal of Science, and the Place of Religion 54
First Theoretical Interlude: The Dynamics of Comparison and Classification 88
3. Christocentric Travel Writing: Dynamics of Comparison and Classification 96
Second Theoretical Interlude: Five Modes of Comparison 132
4. Humanist Travel Writing: Ascent of Empiricism and the On the Spot 136
Third Theoretical Interlude: Classification in the Natural Sciences 174
5. Categories to Count On: Religion and Caste in the Census 182
6. A Raja, a Ghost, and a Tribe: Studies in Folklore, Ethnology, and Religion 225
7. Popularizing Chainpur's Past: Archaeology in Place and in Museums 266
8. Chainpur Today           295
CONCLUSION 331
APPENDICES 339
NOTES 346
BIBLIOGRAPHY 377
Index 401

ER  -