TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bloch,Esther
AU  - Keppens,Marianne
AU  - Hegde,Rajaram
TI  - Rethinking religion in India : the colonial construction of Hinduism 
T2  - Routledge South Asian religion series
SN  - 9780415548908 
AV  - BL1151.5 .R48 2010
U1  - 294.509 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London 
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Hinduism
KW  - Historiography
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - India
KW  - Civilization
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : rethinking religion in India / Marianne Keppens and Esther Bloch -- Hindus and others / David N. Lorenzen -- Hindu religious identity with special reference to the origin and significance of the term Hinduism, c. 1787-1947 / Geoffrey A. Oddie -- Representing religion in colonial India / John Zavos -- Colonialism and religion / Sharada Sugirtharajah -- Women, the freedom movement, and Sanskrit : notes on religion and colonialism from the ethnographic present / Laurie L. Patton -- Colonialism, Hinduism, and the discourse of religion / Richard King -- Who invented Hinduism? : rethinking religion in India / Timothy Fitzgerald -- Orientalism, postcolonialism, and the construction of religion / S.N. Balagangadhara -- The colonial construction of what? / Jakob De Roover and Sarah Claerhout
N2  - This study critically assesses recent debates about the colonial construction of Hinduism. Written by experts in their field, the chapters present historical and empirical arguments as well as theoretical reflections on the topic, offering new insights into the nature of the construction of religion in India
ER  -