Religion, science, and empire: classifying Hinduism and Islam in British India
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.
| Résumé: | 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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| ISBN: | 019997926X |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195393019.001.0001 |