Socio-Religious Reform Movements in British India: 3 (The New Cambridge History of India)
Cambridge University Press, 2/23/1990
EAN 9780521249867, ISBN10: 0521249864
Hardcover, 258 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
The third part of The New Cambridge History of India is devoted to the Indian Empire and the Beginnings of Modern Society. In the first volume, Kenneth Jones looks at the numerous nineteenth-century movements for social and religious change - Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Zoroastrian - that used various forms of religious authority to legitimize their reform programmes. Such movements were both indigenous and colonial in their origins and Professor Jones shows how each adapted to the challenge of competing nationalisms as political circumstances changed. The volumes in this part of the History consider the overall impact of British rule upon the whole sphere of religion, social behaviour and culture. Its coverage is both historical and religious and Socio-religious Reform Movements in British India will appeal to students and scholars in a wide variety of social scientific disciplines.
List of maps
Preface
Note on transliteration
1. Concepts and context
2. Bengal and northeastern India
3. The Gangetic core
Uttar Pradesh and Bihar
4. Punjab and the northwest
5. The central belt and Maharashtra
6. The Dravidian South
7. The twentieth century
socio-religious movements in a politicised world
8. Conclusion
religion in history
Glossary of Indian terms
Bibliographic essay
Index.