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

664 pages first pub 2025 (editions)

nonfiction history religion
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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, p...

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