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The Regulation of Religion and the Making of Hinduism in Colonial Trinidad. By Alexander Rocklin. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. Pp. 310. $90.00 (cloth); $34.95 (paper); $26.99 (digital). ISBN: 9781469648705.

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The Regulation of Religion and the Making of Hinduism in Colonial Trinidad. By Alexander Rocklin. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. Pp. 310. $90.00 (cloth); $34.95 (paper); $26.99 (digital). ISBN: 9781469648705.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2021

Prea Persaud
Prea Persaud*
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Visiting Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College
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Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , August 2021 , pp. 450 - 452
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University

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1 Rocklin cites the category “race-making term” to Paton, Diana, “Obeah Acts: Producing and Policing the Boundaries of Religion in the Caribbean,” Small Axe 13, no. 1 (2009): 1–18CrossRefGoogle Scholar, at 2.

2 Crosson, Brent, Experiments with Power: Obeah and the Remaking of Religion in Trinidad (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Vertovec, Steven, Hindu Trinidad: Religion, Ethnicity, and Socio-economic Change (London: Macmillan, 1992)Google Scholar; Younger, Paul, New Homelands: Hindu Communities in Mauritius, Guyana, Trinidad, South Africa, Fiji, and East Africa (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4 See, for example, Reddock, Rhoda, “Indian Women and Indentureship in Trinidad and Tobago, 1845–1917: Freedom Denied,” Caribbean Quarterly 32, no. 3–4 (1986): 27–49CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Bahadur, Gaiutra, Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014)Google Scholar; Shepherd, Verene A., Maharani's Misery: Narratives of a Passage from India to the Caribbean (Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2002)Google Scholar.