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Chapter 1 - European Letters, the Company and Hinduism

from Part I - Religion, Enlightenment and Empire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 December 2021

Jessica Patterson
Jessica Patterson
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University of Cambridge
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Chapter 1 does two things: it charts the history of European interpretations of Hinduism from early modern travel accounts to the emergence of comparative approaches to the study of world religions in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Following this it offers an overview of the long history of the Company’s policies on religionas well as some of the significant turning points in the Company’s political status and in its institutional approach to research on Indian languages history and religion.

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HinduismEast India Companyeighteenth centuryreligionChristianty
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Religion, Enlightenment and Empire
British Interpretations of Hinduism in the Eighteenth Century
 , pp. 35 - 69
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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