Author: Peter James MarshallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hinduism
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The British discovery of Hinduism in the eighteenth century
Author: Peter James MarshallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hinduism
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The British Discovery of Hinduism in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Peter James MarshallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hinduism
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The British Discovery of Hinduism in the 18th Century
Author: P. J. MarshallPublisher:
ISBN: 9780835774222
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Religion, Enlightenment and Empire
Author: Jessica PattersonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009037536
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
In the second half of the eighteenth century, several British East India Company servants published accounts of what they deemed to be the original and ancient religion of India. Drawing on what are recognised today as the texts and traditions of Hinduism, these works fed into a booming enlightenment interest in Eastern philosophy. At the same time, the Company's aggressive conquest of Bengal was facing a crisis of legitimacy and many of the prominent political minds of the day were turning their attention to the question of empire. In this original study, Jessica Patterson situates these Company works on the 'Hindu religion' in the twin contexts of enlightenment and empire. In doing so, she uncovers the central role of heterodox religious approaches to Indian religions for enlightenment thought, East India Company policy, and contemporary ideas of empire.
The Bristish Discovery of Hinduism in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Peter J. MarshallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The British Discovery of Hinduism in the Eighteenth Century
Author: P. J. MarshallPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521092968
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
One of the incidental consequences of the success of British arms in eighteenth-century India was the appearance of a number of publications which reflect the intense curiosity of contemporary Europeans about strange peoples, their manners and religions. Of the three principal religions of India, Hinduism attracted the most attention. European contact with Islam was several centuries old, while few travellers could identify Buddhism with any certainty. This book reprints some of the most significant English contributions to the early European understanding of Hinduism.
Indian Society in the Eighteenth Century
Author: V. P. S. RaghuvanshiPublisher: New Delhi : Associated Publishing House
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Ideas and Society in India from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries
Author: Evgenii︠a︡ I︠U︡rʹevna VaninaPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Ideas and Society in India discusses society and culture in India from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century as seen by medieval and early modern thinkers. These issues range from the nature of the state, relations between religious communities, doctrinal and ethical attitudes of reformists like the Bhakti and Sufi saints, and the Sikhs, to the Eighteenth Century crisis of the Mughal Empire, the formulations presented by Sufi saints to improve the conditions, and the advent of the 'firangis'. More specifically the book deals with the reaction of Indian thought to the culture and presence of the West. This book will be of interest to medievalists and those interested in studying Indian history in relation to European history.
The Oxford History of the British Empire: The Eighteenth Century
Author: Alaine LowPublisher: Oxford History of the British Empire
ISBN: 9780199246779
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records.
Hinduism Before Reform
Author: Brian A. HatcherPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674247116
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A bold retelling of the origins of contemporary Hinduism, and an argument against the long-established notion of religious reform. By the early eighteenth century, the Mughal Empire was in decline, and the East India Company was making inroads into the subcontinent. A century later Christian missionaries, Hindu teachers, Muslim saints, and Sikh rebels formed the colorful religious fabric of colonial India. Focusing on two early nineteenth-century Hindu communities, the Brahmo Samaj and the Swaminarayan Sampraday, and their charismatic figureheads—the “cosmopolitan” Rammohun Roy and the “parochial” Swami Narayan—Brian Hatcher explores how urban and rural people thought about faith, ritual, and gods. Along the way he sketches a radical new view of the origins of contemporary Hinduism and overturns the idea of religious reform. Hinduism Before Reform challenges the rigid structure of revelation-schism-reform-sect prevalent in much history of religion. Reform, in particular, plays an important role in how we think about influential Hindu movements and religious history at large. Through the lens of reform, one doctrine is inevitably backward-looking while another represents modernity. From this comparison flows a host of simplistic conclusions. Instead of presuming a clear dichotomy between backward and modern, Hatcher is interested in how religious authority is acquired and projected. Hinduism Before Reform asks how religious history would look if we eschewed the obfuscating binary of progress and tradition. There is another way to conceptualize the origins and significance of these two Hindu movements, one that does not trap them within the teleology of a predetermined modernity.
