Socio-religious reform movements in British India / Kenneth W. Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Kenneth W., author.

Series:

New Cambridge history of India ; III, 1.

The new Cambridge history of India ; III, 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and sociology--India.

Religion and sociology.

India--Religion.

India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 243 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Concepts and context

Bengal and north-eastern India

The Gangetic core: Uttar Pradesh and Bihar

Punjab and the North-West

The central belt and Maharashtra

The Dravidian South

The Twentieth Century: socio-religious movements in a politicized world

Conclusion: Religion in history

Glossary of Indian terms.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781139055673 (ebook)

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