A Cultural History of Hinduism In the Age of Late Colonialism

This is Volume 5 in the A Cultural History of Hinduism Series. The series spans the temporal frame of 2000 B.C.E. to 2017 through six volumes representing distinctive time periods that each contain an introduction plus eight chapters on eight themes that are applicable across all of the time periods: Sources of Authority; Body and Mind; Social Organization and Everyday Norms; Identity, Difference and Dialogue; Power and Politics; Visual Culture; Lineages and Emerging Exemplars and Movements; and Global Context. Each volume may be read on its own, or the reader can examine similarities and differences over time of each specific theme across the time periods represented by the volumes. Volume 5 focuses on developments in the age of late colonialism (1857-1947), including diverse ways of envisioning Hinduism’s relationships to political, social and technological changes characteristic of the period. It explores authority, tradition and modernity; modern science, Hinduism and the body; regional religious reform; ideologies of a distinctive Indian identity; emerging political discourses and religious revival; the impact of images via new print media on devotion and political symbolism; the reinvigoration of sampradaya, monastic institutions and regional networks; and the global spread of Hindus and Hindu teachings.