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Hindu Iconoclasts : Rammohun Roy, Dayananda Sarasvati, and Nineteenth-Century Polemics against Idolatry.
Why, Salmond asks, would nineteenth-century Hindus who come from an iconic religious tradition voice a kind of invective one might expect from Hebrew prophets, Muslim iconoclasts, or Calvinists? Rammohun was a wealthy Bengali, intimately associated with the British Raj and familiar with European lan...
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Waterloo :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface; Acknowledgments; Note on Orthography; Introduction: Hindu Iconoclasts: An Anomaly?; One: History of Image-Worship in India; Two: Rammohun Roy; Three: Dayananda Sarasvati; Four: Rammohun and Dayananda; Five: Hindu Iconoclasm: Cross-Cultural Dimensions?; Notes; Bibliography; Index.