Gods Guns & Missionaries English 2024
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ISBN:
9780670093656
Publisher:
Penguin Random House India
Pages:
664
Weight:
1016 g
Dimensions:
23.4 x 15.3 x 3.5 cm
Book Cover:
Hard Cover
Thema:
- Hinduism
When European missionaries first arrived in India in the sixteenth century, they entered a world both fascinating and bewildering. Hinduism, as they saw it, was a pagan mess: the worship of devils and monsters by a people who burned women alive, performed outlandish rites and fed children to crocodiles. But soon it became clear that Hindu ‘idolatry’ was far more complex than white men’s stereotypes allowed, and Hindus had little desire to convert. But then, European power began to grow in India, and under colonial rule, missionaries assumed a forbidding appearance.
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