Machine generated contents note: pt. I Religion and Translation in Colonial India -- 1. The Colonial Politics of Religious Toleration -- 2. Religious Controversy and Ritual-Politics: Problems of Translation -- pt. II The Political History of Universal Religion in India -- 3. The Fountainhead of Religion -- 4. "The Arya Samaj, a Political Body!" -- pt. III Ritual-Politics and Religious Freedom -- 5. The Contested Politics of Shuddhi -- 6. The Ascendance of Tolerance: Debating Religious Freedom in the 1920s
Summary
This text provides a critical history of the distinctive tradition of Indian secularism known as Tolerance. Examining debates surrounding the activities of the Arya Samaj - a Hindu reform organization regarded as the exemplar of intolerance - it finds that Tolerance functioned to disengage Indian secularism from the politics of caste
