Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain

218 Pages·2001·61.43 MB·English

by  Peter van der Veer

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Imperial Encounters
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Imperial Encounters
RELIGION AND MODERNITY IN INDIA
AND BRITAIN
Peter van der Veer
P R I N C E T O N U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S
P R I N C E T O N A N D O X F O R D
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Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University Press
Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street,
Princeton, New Jersey 08540
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ISBN 0-691-07477-1 (cloth)
ISBN 0-691-07478-X (alk. paper)
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FOR JACOBIEN, JAN ANNE, AND SJOERD
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
INTRODUCTION 3
CHAPTER ONE
Secularity and Religion 14
The Separation of Church and State 16
Religion 24
Concluding Remarks 28
CHAPTER TWO
The Moral State: Religion, Nation, and Empire 30
The Moral State in Britain 34
The Colonial Mission in India 41
Concluding Remarks 53
CHAPTER THREE
The Spirits of the Age: Spiritualism
and Political Radicalism 55
British Spirits 58
India's Spiritual Heritage 66
Concluding Remarks 77
CHAPTER FOUR
Moral Muscle: Masculinity and Its Religious Uses 83
Muscular Christianity 85
Hindustani Honor 94
The Internal Enemy 101
Concluding Remarks 104
CHAPTER FIVE
Monumental Texts: Orientalism and the Critical Edition
of India's National Heritage 106
Muller's Science 107
India's Adoption of German Wissenschaft 116
Texts and the Nationalist Imaginaire 122
Speaking, Writing, Watching 129
Concluding Remarks 131
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER SIX
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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