| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 421 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Religion, science, and scientism -- Cartography, the ideal of science, and the place of religion -- First interlude : the dynamics of comparison and classification -- Christocentric travel writing : dynamics of comparison and classification -- Second interlude : the five modes of comparison -- Humanist travel writing : ascent of empiricism and the on the spot -- Third interlude : classification in the natural sciences -- Categories to count on : religion and caste in the census -- Raja, a ghost, and a tribe : studies in ethnology, folklore, and religion -- Popularizing Chainpur's past: archaeology in place and in museums -- Education : teaching scientism -- Chainpur today |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Religion and sociology -- India -- History
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Religion and science -- India -- History
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Religion and politics -- India -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology of Religion.
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Historiography
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Religion and politics
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Religion and science
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Religion and sociology
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| SUBJECT |
Chainpur (Bihar, India) -- Historiography
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India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064915
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| Subject |
India
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India -- Chainpur (Bihar)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781283713405 |
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1283713403 |
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9780199908332 |
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0199908338 |
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019997926X |
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9780199979264 |
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