Religion, Science, and Empire: Classifying Hinduism and Islam in British India

by Peter Gottschalk

Peter Gottschalk offers a compelling study of how, through the British implementation of scientific taxonomy in the subcontinent, Britons and Indians identified an inherent divide between mutually antagonistic religious communities.

England's ascent to power coincided with the rise of empirical science as an authoritative way of knowing not only the natural world, but the human one as well. The British scientific passion for classification,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195393015
• ISBN13: 9780195393019
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.3"