Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity by Manu S. Pillai

Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity

Manu S. Pillai

859 pages first pub 2024 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history religion
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When European missionaries arrived in India in the sixteenth century, they entered a world both fascinating and bewildering. Hinduism, as they saw it, was a pagan mess: a worship of devils and monsters by a people who burned women alive, performed...

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