Jessica Patterson (University of Cambridge)

Religion, Enlightenment and Empire

British Interpretations of Hinduism in the Eighteenth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

In the second half of the eighteenth century, several British East India Company servants published accounts of what they deemed to be the original and ancient religion of India. Jessica Patterson's original study situates these Company works on the 'Hindu religion' in the contexts of enlightenment and empire.

Produktdetails

• Ideas in Context
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 367
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 536g
• ISBN-13: 9781009017688
• ISBN-10: 1009017683
• Artikelnr.: 68886710

Autorenporträt

Jessica Patterson is Lecturer in the History of Political Thought at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Newnham College. Her research focuses on the intellectual history of enlightenment and empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She has published work in History of European Ideas and South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Religion, Enlightenment and Empire: 1. European Letters, the Company and Hinduism; 2. John Zephaniah Holwell and the Religion of the Gentoos; 3. Alexander Dow and the Hindoo Shasters; 4. Enlightenment and Empire; Part II. From Scepticism to Orientalism: 5. Nathaniel Brassey Halhed and Gentoo Antiquity; 6. Charles Wilkins and the G
t
; 7. William Jones, Ved
nta and the 'Permanent Settlement'; Conclusion.