Imagining Hinduism
Imagining Hinduism examines how Hinduism has been defined, interpreted and manufactured through Western categorizations, from the foreign interventions of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Orientalists and missionaries, to the present day. Sugirtharajah argues that ever since early Orientalists ''discovered'' the ancient Sanskrit texts and the Hindu ''golden age'', the West has nurtured a complex ...
Imagining Hinduism examines how Hinduism has been defined, interpreted and manufactured through Western categorizations, from the foreign interventions of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Orientalists and missionaries, to the present day. Sugirtharajah argues that ever since early Orientalists ''discovered'' the ancient Sanskrit texts and the Hindu ''golden age'', the West has nurtured a complex ...
