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.
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.
Professor and Chair, Department of Religion, Wesleyan University.
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* Acknowledgements * List of Illustrations * Glossaries * Note on Transliteration * Foreword by Peter Lake * Introduction * Chapter One: Religion, Science, and Scientism * Chapter Two: Cartography, the Ideal of Science, and the Place of Religion * First Interlude: The Dynamics of Comparison and Classification * Chapter Three: Christocentric Travel Writing: Dynamics of Comparison and Classification * Second Interlude: The Five Modes of Comparison * Chapter Four: Humanist Travel Writing: Ascent of Empiricism and the On the Spot * Third Interlude: Classification in the Natural Sciences * Chapter Five: Categories to Count On: Religion and Caste in the Census * Chapter Six: A Raja, a Ghost, and a Tribe: Studies in Ethnology, Folklore, and Religion * Chapter Seven: Popularizing Chainpur's Past: Archaeology in Place and in Museums * Chapter Eight: Chainpur Today * Conclusion * Appendices * Notes * Index
* Acknowledgements * List of Illustrations * Glossaries * Note on Transliteration * Foreword by Peter Lake * Introduction * Chapter One: Religion, Science, and Scientism * Chapter Two: Cartography, the Ideal of Science, and the Place of Religion * First Interlude: The Dynamics of Comparison and Classification * Chapter Three: Christocentric Travel Writing: Dynamics of Comparison and Classification * Second Interlude: The Five Modes of Comparison * Chapter Four: Humanist Travel Writing: Ascent of Empiricism and the On the Spot * Third Interlude: Classification in the Natural Sciences * Chapter Five: Categories to Count On: Religion and Caste in the Census * Chapter Six: A Raja, a Ghost, and a Tribe: Studies in Ethnology, Folklore, and Religion * Chapter Seven: Popularizing Chainpur's Past: Archaeology in Place and in Museums * Chapter Eight: Chainpur Today * Conclusion * Appendices * Notes * Index
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