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Spiritual despots: Modern Hinduism and the genealogies of self-rule

By Scott , J. Barton

Book information

Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9780226368702, 022636870X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14930469 bytes)
Series
South Asia across the disciplines.
Pages
0\142
Time added
2017-08-27 08:02:28
Hinduism -- India -- History -- 19th century;Hindu

Description

Historians of religion have examined at length the Protestant Reformation and the liberal idea of the self-governing individual that arose from it. J. Barton Scott reveals an unexamined piece of this story: how Protestant technologies of asceticism became entangled with Hindu spiritual practices to create an ideal of the 'self-ruling subject' crucial to both 19th-century reform culture and early 20th-century anticolonialism in India.  Read more...

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