Was Hinduism Invented?: Britons, Indians, and the Colonial Construction of Religion

by Brian K . Pennington (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2005

  $122.79

  Drawing on a body of literature, including documents from the Church Missionary Society and Bengali newspapers, this book offers a portrait of the process by which Hinduism came into being. It argues against the common idea that the modern construction of religion in colonial India was simply a fabrication of Western Orientalists and missionaries.