A Postcolonial Perspective
by
Sharada Sugirtharajah
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
Imagining Hinduism examines how Hinduism has been defined, interpreted and manufactured through Western categorizations, from the foreign interventions of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Orientalists and missionaries, to the present day. Sugirtharajah argues that ever since early Orientalists 'discovered'...