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020 _a9780195645774
082 _a306 VIS
100 _aVishwanathan Gauri
245 _aOutside the fold :
_bconversion, modernity and belief /
_cGauri Vishwanathan
260 _aDelhi :
_bOxford University Press,
_c1998.
300 _axix, 332 p. :
_c22 cm
365 _bRs.495/-
505 _aTable of contents : List of Illustrations (page ix) Preface (page xi) Acknowledgments (page xix) PART ONE: DISSENT AND THE NATION (page 1) Chapter One Cross Currents (page 3) Chapter Two A Grammar of Dissent (page 44) PART TWO: COLONIAL INTERVENTIONS (page 73) Chapter Three Rights of Passage: Converts' Testimonies (page 75) Chapter Four Silencing Heresy (page 118) Chapter Five Ethnographic Plots (page 153) Chapter Six Conversion, Theosophy, and Race Theory (page 177) PART THREE: THE IMAGINED COMMUNITY (page 209) Chapter Seven Conversion to Equality (page 211) Chapter Eight Epilogue: The Right to Belief (page 240) Appendix The Census of India, 1901 (page 255) Notes (page 261) Select Bibliography (page 297) Index (page 317)
650 _aConversion of Religion - Factors - Colonial
650 _a Post-Colonial - History - India.
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