About the Book: Parikalhit Hinduvad: British Protestant Missionarykrut
Hinduvadchi Rachite 1793-1900
This important book explores the emergence and subsequent refinement of the
idea of Hinduism as it developed among British Protestant missionaries in the
late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The author demonstrates how the
missionaries Construction of Hinduism grew out of their own roots in
post-Enlightenment Europe, their Christian conception of religion, the colonial
reality of India and their need to know the enemy In order to spread
Christianity more effectively. Drawing upon missionary writings, Geoffrey oddie
shows how the early view of Hinduism as pagan or Heathen settled into the
dominant paradigm of Hinduism as a