Book contents
- Religion, Enlightenment and Empire
- Ideas in Context
- Religion, Enlightenment and Empire
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on the Text
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Religion, Enlightenment and Empire
- Chapter 1 European Letters, the Company and Hinduism
- Chapter 2 John Zephaniah Holwell and the Religion of the Gentoos
- Chapter 3 Alexander Dow and the Hindoo Shasters
- Chapter 4 Enlightenment and Empire
- Part II From Scepticism to Orientalism
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 3 - Alexander Dow and the Hindoo Shasters
from Part I - Religion, Enlightenment and Empire
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 December 2021
- Religion, Enlightenment and Empire
- Ideas in Context
- Religion, Enlightenment and Empire
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on the Text
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Religion, Enlightenment and Empire
- Chapter 1 European Letters, the Company and Hinduism
- Chapter 2 John Zephaniah Holwell and the Religion of the Gentoos
- Chapter 3 Alexander Dow and the Hindoo Shasters
- Chapter 4 Enlightenment and Empire
- Part II From Scepticism to Orientalism
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 3 offers the first sustained and systematic approach to understanding the ideas of Company servant Alexander Dow. It outlines how Dow’s assessment of the origins of the Hindoo religion was grounded in the language and concepts of eighteenth-century rational religion according to an account of Dow’s treatment of the two primary schools of thought that he argued make up the Hindoo religion: the Bedang (Vedānta) and the Neadrisen (Nyāya).
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- Religion, Enlightenment and EmpireBritish Interpretations of Hinduism in the Eighteenth Century, pp. 113 - 154Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021