Gods Guns & Missionaries : The Making Of The Modern Hindu Identity
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0670093653
ISBN-13
9780670093656
Publisher
Penguin Random House India
Imprint
Penguin Random House India
Country of Manufacture
IN
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 25th, 2024
Print length
664 Pages
Weight
898 grams
Dimensions
16.30 x 25.00 x 5.30 cms
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Prose: non-fiction
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During the British Raj, Western frames of thinking gained ascendancy and Hindus felt pressed to reimagine their religion. This was both to fortify it against Christian attacks and to resist foreign rule. It is this encounter which has, in good measure, inspired modern Hinduism’s present shape.
When European missionaries first arrived in India in the sixteenth century, they entered a world both fascinating and bewildering. Hinduism, as they saw it, was a pagan mess: the worship of devils and monsters by a people who burned women alive, performed outlandish rites and fed children to crocodiles. But soon it became clear that Hindu ‘idolatry’ was far more complex than white men’s stereotypes allowed, and Hindus had little desire to convert. But then, European power began to grow in India, and under colonial rule, missionaries assumed a forbidding appearance.
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