Religion, Science, and Empire
Classifying Hinduism and Islam in British India
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 20 December 2012
- ISBN 9780195393019
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages448 pages
- Size 157x236x35 mm
- Weight 703 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 18 black and white halftones 0
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Short description:
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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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.
England's ascent to power coincided with the rise of empirical science as an authoritative way of knowing not only the natural world, but the human one as well. The British scientific passion for classification, combined with the Christian impulse to differentiate people according to religion, led to a designation of Indians as either Hindu or Muslim according to rigidly defined criteria that paralleled classification in botanical and zoological taxonomies.
Through an historical and ethnographic study of the north Indian village of Chainpur, Gottschalk shows that the Britons' presumed categories did not necessarily reflect the Indians' concepts of their own identities, though many Indians came to embrace this scientism and gradually accepted the categories the British instituted through projects like the Census of India, the Archaeological Survey of India, and the India Museum. Today's propogators of Hindu-Muslim violence often cite scientistic formulations of difference that descend directly from the categories introduced by imperial Britain.
Religion, Science, and Empire will be a valuable resource to anyone interested in the colonial and postcolonial history of religion in India.
This is a remarkable book which greatly expands our knowledge of the processes which went into making British representations of India. It is a formidable achievement.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Glossaries
Note on Transliteration
Foreword by Peter Lake
Introduction
Chapter One: Religion, Science, and Scientism
Chapter Two: Cartography, the Ideal of Science, and the Place of Religion
First Interlude: The Dynamics of Comparison and Classification
Chapter Three: Christocentric Travel Writing: Dynamics of Comparison and Classification
Second Interlude: The Five Modes of Comparison
Chapter Four: Humanist Travel Writing: Ascent of Empiricism and the On the Spot
Third Interlude: Classification in the Natural Sciences
Chapter Five: Categories to Count On: Religion and Caste in the Census
Chapter Six: A Raja, a Ghost, and a Tribe: Studies in Ethnology, Folklore, and Religion
Chapter Seven: Popularizing Chainpur's Past: Archaeology in Place and in Museums
Chapter Eight: Chainpur Today
Conclusion
Appendices
Notes
Index
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