1st Edition
Rethinking Religion in India The Colonial Construction of Hinduism
Notes on the contributors Preface - Rajaram Hegde Acknowledgements Introduction: Rethinking Religion in India - Marianne Keppens and Esther Bloch Part I: Historical and Empirical Arguments 1. Hindus and Others - David N. Lorenzen 2. Hindu Religious Identity with Special Reference to the Origin and Significance of the Term ‘Hinduism’, c. 1787-1947 - Geoffrey A. Oddie 3. Representing Religion in Colonial India - John Zavos 4. Colonialism and Religion - Sharada Sugirtharajah 5. Women, the Freedom Movement, and Sanskrit: Notes on Religion and Colonialism from the Ethnographic Present - Laurie L. Patton Part II: Theoretical Reflections 6. Colonialism, Hinduism and the Discourse of Religion - Richard King 7. Who Invented Hinduism? Rethinking Religion in India - Timothy Fitzgerald 8. Orientalism, Postcolonialism and the ‘Construction’ of Religion - S.N. Balagangadhara 9. The Colonial Construction of What? - Jakob De Roover and Sarah Claerhout
Biography
Esther Bloch and Marianne Keppens are Doctoral Researchers at the Research Centre Vergelijkende Cultuurwetenschap, Ghent University, Belgium. Rajaram Hegde is Professor in History and Archaeology at Kuvempu University, Karnataka, India. He is also the Director of the Centre for the Study of Local Cultures - a research collaboration between Ghent University and Kuvempu University.
