Socio-Religious Reform Movements in British India

Klappentext Socio-religious Reform Movements in British India will appeal to students and scholars in a wide variety of social scientific disciplines. Zusammenfassung Kenneth Jones looks at the numerous nineteenth-century movements for social and religious change - Christian! Hindu! Muslim! Sikh and Zoroastrian - that used various forms of religious authority to legitimise their reform programmes. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of maps; Preface; Note on transliteration; 1. Concepts and context; 2. Bengal and northeastern India; 3. The Gangetic core: Uttar Pradesh and Bihar; 4. Punjab and the northwest; 5. The central belt and Maharashtra; 6. The Dravidian South; 7. The twentieth century: socio-religious movements in a politicised world; 8. Conclusion: religion in history; Glossary of Indian terms; Bibliographic essay; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Kenneth W. Jones
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.02.1990
• EAN: 9780521249867
• ISBN: 978-0-521-24986-7
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: New Cambridge History of India
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous