| Description |
1 online resource (374 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-364) and index. |
| Summary |
This important book explores the emergence and subsequent refinement of the idea of Hinduism as it developed among British Protestant missionaries in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The author demonstrates how the missionaries' construction of Hinduism grew out of their own roots in post-Enlightenment Europe, their Christian conception of religion, the colonial reality of India, and their need to 'know the enemy' in order to spread Christianity more effectively. Drawing upon missionary writings, Geoffrey Oddie shows how the early view of Hinduism as pagan or heathen settled into. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Missions, British -- India -- History -- 18th century.
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Missions, British. |
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India. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Missions, British -- India -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Protestants -- India -- History -- 18th century.
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Protestants. |
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Protestants -- India -- History -- 19th century.
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Protestant churches -- Relations -- Hinduism.
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Protestant churches. |
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Relations. |
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Hinduism. |
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Hinduism -- Relations -- Protestant churches.
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1793-1900. |
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1700-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Oddie, Geoffrey A., 1932- Imagined Hinduism. New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2006 0761934480 (DLC) 2005036060 (OCoLC)62615951 |
| ISBN |
9788132109211 (electronic book) |
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813210921X (electronic book) |
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1283422166 |
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9781283422161 |
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0761934480 |
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9780761934486 |
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0761934871 |
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9780761934875 |
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8178295911 |
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9788178295916 |
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8178296373 |
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9788178296371 |
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