Religion, Enlightenment and Empire: British Interpretations of Hinduism in the Eighteenth Century Religion, Enlightenment and Empire: British Interpretations of Hinduism in the Eighteenth Century, by Jessica Patterson, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 350 pp., £90 (hb), ISBN 978-1-316510636 [Book Review]

Intellectual History Review 33 (4):771-773 (2023)
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In the decades following the British victory at the Battle of Plassey (1757), officials of the East India Company transmitted new knowledge of Indian religious texts and traditions to European read...

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