Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain

by Peter van der Veer

Book Overview

Picking up on Edward Said's claim that the historical experience of empire is common to both the colonizer and the colonized, Peter van der Veer takes the case of religion to examine the mutual impact of Britain's colonization of India on Indian and British culture. He shows that national culture in both India and Britain developed in relation to their shared colonial experience and that notions of religion and secularity were crucial in imagining...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069107478X
• ISBN13: 9780691074788
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"