Missionaries, Rebellion and Proto-Nationalism (London Studies on South Asia.)

The Rev. James Long was one of the most remarkable Protestant missionaries working in India in the nineteenth century. Sent to Calcutta at the age of 22 in 1840, he devoted his life to representing what he passionately believed were the best interests of the forgotten poor and oppressed among the Bengali population. Long was a central figure in the indigo planting controversy of 1861 and suffered imprisonment as a result. His memory is revered even today in modern India, where his contribution to the development of Bengali vernacular education, literature, history, and sociology is highly regarded. Dr Oddie has produced the first full-length biography of Rev Long, examining his work and activities in the context of his own background, philosophy and motivation as well as the political and cultural climate of the day. This book will add significantly to our knowledge of social movements in nineteenth century India and the colonial responses to them.

Missionaries, Rebellion and Proto-Nationalism: James Long of Bengal (Soas London Studies on South Asia, 16)

Oddie, Geoffrey A.

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Routledge

Imagined Hinduism: British Protestant Missionary Constructions of Hinduism, 1793 - 1900

<p>This book explores the emergence and subsequent refinement of the idea of Hinduism as it developed among British Protestant missionaries in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Using missionary writings, the author shows how the early conservative view of Hinduism as pagan or heathen grew into the dominant paradigm of Hinduism as a unitary, brahman-controlled system, ridden with idolatry, ritualism, superstition, and sexual license. The last few chapters examine the impact of these representations of Hinduism in India and the West. This book is noteworthy for its recognition of the role of ′imagination′ and the concept of the ′dominant paradigm′.</p>

Religion & Spirituality

Hinduism

SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd

FOCUSES ATTENTION ON THE MISSIONARIES CONCERN WITH SOCIAL ISSUES AND INVOLVEMENT IN AGITATION FOR SOCIAL REFORM.

Social Protest in India

South Asia Books

Recent studies of South India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries concentrate primarily on political and social issues. Studies of specifically religious developments, of religious encounter, institutions and movements, especially in the nineteenth century, have been few and far between. The purpose of this study is to examine religious institutions, trends and developments in parts of South-east India, focusing on the Tanjore and Trichinopoly districts - a region that has long been famous as a centre of cultural and religious activity. It is recalled that neither Hinduism nor Christianity were totally static forms of religious organization, ritual or belief, but were living traditions always in the process of change and adaptation: thus one of the major concerns of the book deals with continuities, conversion and change.

Hindu and Christian in South-East India (London Studies on South Asia)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Curzon Pr

<p>The Rev. James Long was one of the most remarkable Protestant missionaries working in India in the nineteenth century. Sent to Calcutta at the age of 22 in 1840, he devoted his life to representing what he passionately believed were the best interests of the forgotten poor and oppressed among the Bengali population. Long was a central figure in the indigo planting controversy of 1861 and suffered imprisonment as a result. His memory is revered even today in modern India, where his contribution to the development of Bengali vernacular education, literature, history, and sociology is highly regarded. Dr Oddie has produced the first full-length biography of Rev Long, examining his work and activities in the context of his own background, philosophy and motivation as well as the political and cultural climate of the day. This book will add significantly to our knowledge of social movements in nineteenth century India and the colonial responses to them.</p>

Religion in South Asia: Religious conversion and revival movements in South Asia in medieval and modern times

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Missionaries, Rebellion and Proto-Nationalism: James Long of Bengal (Soas London Studies on South Asia, 16)

Imagined Hinduism: British Protestant Missionary Constructions of Hinduism, 1793 - 1900

Imagined Hinduism: British Protestant Missionary Constructions of Hinduism, 1793 - 1900

Social Protest in India

Hindu and Christian in South-East India (London Studies on South Asia)

Missionaries, Rebellion and Proto-Nationalism (London Studies on South Asia.)

Religion in South Asia: Religious conversion and revival movements in South Asia in medieval and modern times