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1 online resource (187 pages) |
| Summary |
Why, Salmond asks, would nineteenth-century Hindus who come from an iconic religious tradition voice a kind of invective one might expect from Hebrew prophets, Muslim iconoclasts, or Calvinists? Rammohun was a wealthy Bengali, intimately associated with the British Raj and familiar with European languages, religion, and currents of thought. Dayananda was an itinerant Gujarati ascetic who did not speak English and was not integrated into the culture of the colonizers. Salmond's examination of Dayananda after Rammohun complicates the easy assumption that nineteenth-century Hindu iconoclasm is. |
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Preface; Acknowledgments; Note on Orthography; Introduction: Hindu Iconoclasts: An Anomaly?; One: History of Image-Worship in India; Two: Rammohun Roy; Three: Dayananda Sarasvati; Four: Rammohun and Dayananda; Five: Hindu Iconoclasm: Cross-Cultural Dimensions?; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
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Rammohun Roy, Raja, 1772?-1833.
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Dayananda Sarasvati, Swami, 1824-1883.
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Idols and images -- India -- Worship.
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Hinduism -- Controversial literature.
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Salmond, Noel. Hindu Iconoclasts : Rammohun Roy, Dayananda Sarasvati, and Nineteenth-Century Polemics against Idolatry. Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2006 9780889204195 |
| ISBN |
9781554581283 (electronic bk.) |
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1554581281 (electronic bk.) |
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