By J. Barton Scott
Through this substitute family tree of the self-ruling topic, Spiritual Despots demonstrates that Hindu reform activities can't be understood completely in the precolonial culture, yet really must be learn along different pursuits in their interval. The book’s concentration strikes fluidly among Britain and India—engaging thinkers resembling James Mill, Keshub Chunder Sen, Max Weber, Karsandas Mulji, Helena Blavatsky, M. okay. Gandhi, and others—to exhibit how colonial Hinduism formed significant glossy discourses concerning the self. all through, Scott sheds much-needed gentle how the rhetoric of priestcraft and practices of worldly asceticism performed a very important position in making a new ethical and political order for twentieth-century India and demonstrates the significance of viewing the emergence of secularism during the colonial encounter.
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