Religion, science, and empire classifying Hinduism and Islam in British India
Title:
Religion, science, and empire classifying Hinduism and Islam in British India
Author:
Gottschalk, Peter, 1963-
ISBN:
9781283713405
9780199908332
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Publication Information:
New York : Oxford University Press, [2013], c2013.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xx, 421 p.) : ill.
Contents:
Religion, science, and scientism -- Cartography, the ideal of science, and the place of religion -- First interlude : the dynamics of comparison and classification -- Christocentric travel writing : dynamics of comparison and classification -- Second interlude : the five modes of comparison -- Humanist travel writing : ascent of empiricism and the on the spot -- Third interlude : classification in the natural sciences -- Categories to count on : religion and caste in the census -- Raja, a ghost, and a tribe : studies in ethnology, folklore, and religion -- Popularizing Chainpur's past: archaeology in place and in museums -- Education : teaching scientism -- Chainpur today.
Abstract:
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.
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