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By Peter van der Veer

deciding on up on Edward Said's declare that the old adventure of empire is usual to either the colonizer and the colonized, Peter van der Veer takes the case of faith to ascertain the mutual effect of Britain's colonization of India on Indian and British tradition. He exhibits that nationwide tradition in either India and Britain built on the subject of their shared colonial event and that notions of faith and secularity have been the most important in imagining the trendy kingdom in either international locations. within the method, van der Veer chronicles how those notions built within the moment 1/2 the 19th century on the subject of gender, race, language, spirituality, and science.

Avoiding the pitfalls of either international structures thought and nationwide historiography, this publication problematizes oppositions among glossy and conventional, secular and non secular, innovative and reactionary. It indicates that what frequently are assumed to be opposites are, in truth, profoundly entangled. In doing so, it upsets the handy fiction that India is the land of everlasting faith, present outdoors of background, whereas Britain is the epitome of recent secularity and an agent of historical past. Van der Veer additionally money owed for the continued function of faith in British tradition and the robust half faith has performed within the improvement of Indian civil society. This masterly paintings of scholarship brings into view the consequences of the very shut come across among India and Britain--an intimate come across that outlined the nature of either nations.

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