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Gods, Guns and Missionaries : (Record no. 213334)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780670093656
Qualifying information (Hardback)
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 294.509
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Pillai, Manu S
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Gods, Guns and Missionaries :
Remainder of title The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Haryana
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Penguin Random House
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2024
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xlvii, 564 pages
Dimensions 24 cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount Rs. 999.00
505 ## - Contents
Contents CONTENTS;<br/>Introduction: A BrigfHistory of Hinduism;<br/>1. Monsters and Missionaries;<br/>2. 'Heathens' and Hidden Truths;<br/>3. Governing the Gentoos;<br/>4. An Indian Renaissance';<br/>5. For God and Country;<br/>6. Native Luthers';<br/>7. Drawing Blood;<br/>Epilogue: What Is Hinduism?;<br/>Acknoruledgements;<br/>Notes;<br/>Index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. When European missionaries first arrived in India in the sixteenth century, they entered a world both fascinating and bewildering. Hinduism, as they saw it, was a pagan mess: the worship of devils and monsters by a people who burned women alive, performed outlandish rites and fed children to crocodiles. But soon it became clear that Hindu ‘idolatry’ was far more complex than white men’s stereotypes allowed, and Hindus had little desire to convert.<br/>But then, European power began to grow in India, and under colonial rule, missionaries assumed a forbidding appearance. During the British Raj, Western frames of thinking gained ascendancy and Hindus felt pressed to reimagine their religion. This was both to fortify it against Christian attacks and to resist foreign rule. It is this encounter which has, in good measure, inspired modern Hinduism’s present shape. Indeed, Hindus subverted some of the missionaries’ own tools and strategies in the process, triggering the birth of Hindu nationalism, now so dominant in the country.<br/>In Gods, Guns and Missionaries, Manu S. Pillai takes us through these remarkable dynamics. With an arresting cast of characters—maharajahs, poets, gun-wielding revolutionaries, politicians, polemicists, philosophers and clergymen—this book is ambitious in its scope and provocative in its position. Lucid and exhaustive, it is, at once, a political history, a review of Hindu culture and a study of the social forces that prepared the ground for Hindu nationalism. Turning away from simplistic ideas on religious evolution and European imperialism, the past as it appears here is more complicated—and infinitely richer—than popular narratives allow.
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    Dewey Decimal Classification HB     NLS NLS General Stacks 16/01/2025 Purchased - Amazon.in 999.00 2 3 294.509 PIL 39975 04/12/2025 27/11/2025 16/01/2025 BOOKs Recommended by Prof. Dr. Arun K Thiruvengadam