Hindu iconoclasts : Rammohun Roy, Dayananda Sarasvati, and nineteenth-century polemics against idolatry / Noel A. Salmond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salmond, Noel A. (Noel Anthony), 1953-

Contributor:

Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion.

Series:

Editions SR ; v. 28.

Editions SR ; v. 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rammohun Roy, Raja, 1772?-1833.

Rammohun Roy.

Dayananda Sarasvati, Swami, 1824-1883.

Dayananda Sarasvati.

Idols and images--India--Worship--History--19th century.

Idols and images.

Worship (Hinduism).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (187 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Why, Salmond asks, would nineteenth-century Hindus who come from an iconic religious tradition voice a kind of invective one might expect from Hebrew prophets, Muslim iconoclasts, or Calvinists? Rammohun was a wealthy Bengali, intimately associated with the British Raj and familiar with European languages, religion, and currents of thought. Dayananda was an itinerant Gujarati ascetic who did not speak English and was not integrated into the culture of the colonizers. Salmond's examination of Dayananda after Rammohun complicates the easy assumption that nineteenth-century Hindu ico

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Note on Orthography; Introduction: Hindu Iconoclasts: An Anomaly?; One: History of Image-Worship in India; Two: Rammohun Roy; Three: Dayananda Sarasvati; Four: Rammohun and Dayananda; Five: Hindu Iconoclasm: Cross-Cultural Dimensions?; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Novel.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610925728

9781280925726

1280925728

9781554581283

1554581281

OCLC:

753479585