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When European missionaries first arrived in India in the sixteenth century, they entered a world both fascinating and bewildering. Hinduism, as they saw it, was a pagan mess: the worship of devils and monsters by a people who burned women alive, performed outlandish rites and fed children to crocodiles. But soon it became clear that Hindu ‘idolatry’ was far more complex than white men’s stereotypes allowed, and Hindus had little desire to convert.
But then, European power began to grow in India, and under colonial rule, missionaries assumed a forbidding appearance. During the British Raj, Western frames of thinking gained ascendancy and Hindus felt pressed to reimagine their religion. This was both to fortify it against Christian attacks and to resist foreign rule. It is this encounter which has, in good measure, inspired modern Hinduism’s present shape. Indeed, Hindus subverted some of the missionaries’ own tools and strategies in the process, triggering the birth of Hindu nationalism, now so dominant in the country.
In Gods, Guns and Missionaries, Manu S. Pillai takes us through these remarkable dynamics. With an arresting cast of characters―maharajahs, poets, gun-wielding revolutionaries, politicians, polemicists, philosophers and clergymen―this book is ambitious in its scope and provocative in its position. Lucid and exhaustive, it is, at once, a political history, a review of Hindu culture and a study of the social forces that prepared the ground for Hindu nationalism. Turning away from simplistic ideas on religious evolution and European imperialism, the past as it appears here is more complicated―and infinitely richer―than popular narratives allow.
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This creative doodle book has a perfect blend of beautiful and intricate designs based on different themes to color in. The book has 32 inspiring simple and complex doodles comprising different patterns printed on one side only. Practising with bright colors enhances children?s color awareness; plus there are Perforated pages for an easy pull-out to display their art. The designs provide kids with several hour of coloring fun, develop their motor skills and Spark their imagination.
From the Publisher
Publisher : Wonder House Books (1 January 2019); Prakash Books India Pvt Ltd, 113A, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi-110002, +9111-23265358
Language : English
Paperback : 64 pages
ISBN-10 : 9388810570
ISBN-13 : 978-9388810579
Item Weight : 330 g
Dimensions : 28.09 x 0.51 x 27.99 cm
Country of Origin : India
Net Quantity : 1 Count
Importer : Prakash Books India Pvt Ltd
Packer : Prakash Books India Pvt Ltd
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