Religion, Science, and Empire: Classifying Hinduism and Islam in British India

by Peter Gottschalk

Peter Gottschalk offers a compelling study of how, through the British implementation of scientific taxonomy in the subcontinent, Britons and Indians identified an inherent divide between mutually antagonistic religious communities.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195393015
• ISBN13: 9780195393019
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.3"