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082			_a291.17 _bVEE
100			_aVeer, Peter van der _984892
245			_aImperial encounters : religion and modernity in India and Britain
260			_aPrinceton _bPrinceton University Press _c2001
300			_ax,205p.
505			_aContent: 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
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650			_aArchitects _aReligion and state _aGreat Britain _aBritish colonies _aAsia _aReligions _aInterfaith relations