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  • Chapter 1 - European Letters, the Company and Hinduism

  • from Part I - Religion, Enlightenment and Empire
  • Jessica Patterson, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    Religion, Enlightenment and Empire
    Published online:
    09 December 2021
    Print publication:
    16 December 2021, pp 35-69

  • Summary

    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.