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Religion, science, and empire : classifying Hinduism and Islam in British India / Peter Gottschalk

New York : Oxford University Press, 2013

1 Online-Ressource : ill

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-0-19-997926-4 ( : ebook (No price))

978-0-19-539301-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 919293962     

Elektronische Ressource: R; OUP (OPAC-Hinweis:Oxford scholarship online)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195393019.001.0001

BL2007.5

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LOC-SH: Religion and sociology -- India -- History ; India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947 ; Religion and politics -- India -- History ; Chainpur (Bihar, India) -- Historiography ; Religion and science -- India -- History

Religion and sociology ; India ; History ; Religion and science ; India ; History ; Religion and politics ; India ; History ; Chainpur (Bihar, India) ; Historiography ; India ; History ; British occupation, 1765-1947

Peter Gottschalk offers a compelling study of how, through the British implementation of scientific taxonomy in the subcontinent, Britons and Indians identified an inherent divide between mutually antagonistic religious communities