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Hinduism in Colonial Bengal

Hinduism in Colonial Bengal Beyond the Renaissance - Routledge Hindu Studies Series

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Publisher's Synopsis

This book offers a focused examination of the Bengali Vaiṣṇava tradition in its manifold forms in the pivotal context of British colonialism in South Asia.

Bringing together scholars from across the disciplines of social and intellectual history, philology, theology, and anthropology to systematically investigate Vaiṣṇavism in colonial Bengal, this book highlights the significant roles-religious, social, and cultural-that a prominent Hindu devotional current played in the lives of wide and diverse sections of colonial Bengali society. Not only does the book thereby enrich our understanding of the history and development of Bengali Vaiṣṇavism, but it also sheds valuable new light on the texture and dynamics of colonial Hinduism beyond the discursive and social-historical parameters of an entrenched Hindu "Renaissance" paradigm.

A landmark in the burgeoning field of Bengali Vaiṣṇava studies, this book will be of interest to scholars of modern Hinduism, religion, and colonial South Asian social and intellectual history.

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Book information

ISBN: 9781138561793
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
DEWEY: 294.5512095414
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 272
Weight: 538g
Height: 241mm
Width: 163mm
Spine width: 16mm