The British Discovery of Hinduism in the Eighteenth Century

One of the incidental consequences of the success of British arms in eighteenth-century India was the appearance of a number of publications which reflect the intense curiosity of contemporary Europeans about strange peoples, their manners and religions. Of the three principal religions of India, Hinduism attracted the most attention. European contact with Islam was several centuries old, while few travellers could identify Buddhism with any certainty. This book reprints some of the most significant English contributions to the early European understanding of Hinduism

Ancient history · Hinduism · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Indian History and Philosophy · Philosophy · Religious studies

• La linguistique indienne

  Open Access•Johannes Bronkhorst•Cahiers du Centre de Linguistique…•2017

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• William Jones and the Study of Hinduism

  Open Access•Jessica Patterson•Global Intellectual History•2023

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• New Perspectives on the Life and Worlds of Sir William Jones

  Joshua Ehrlich, Ian B Stewart•Global Intellectual History•2023

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• Idolatry

  Swagato Ganguly•South Asian History and Culture•2016

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• Debrahminising Diplomacy

  Gajendran Ayyathurai•The Hague Journal of Diplomacy•2025

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• The Yugas

  Open Access•Luis González‐reimann•Religion Compass•2014

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• Romantic Period Writing and India

  Open Access•Andrew Rudd•Literature Compass•2004

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• Livros de viagem do Oitocentos e a fabricação do Oriente

  Open Access•Margareth De Almeida Gonçalves, Margareth Almeida Gonçalves•Topoi (Rio de Janeiro•2011

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• A Question of Rites? Perspectives on the Colonial Encounter with Sati

  Open Access•Andrea Major•History Compass•2006

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• The Career of Colonel Polier and Late Eighteenth-Century Orientalism

  Open Access•Sanjay Subrahmanyam•Journal of the Royal Asiatic…•2000

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• Abolishing the East

  Gregory A Barton•Comparative Studies of South Asia…•2009

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• British views on religion and religions in the age of William and Mary

  David A Pailin•Method & Theory in the Study of…•1994

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• The census and women's work in Rangoon, 1872–1931

  Open Access•Satish Kumar, M Satish Kumar•Journal of Historical Geography•2006

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• India in the Novels of Robert Bage

  Chaman L Sahni•South Asian Review•1996

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• Colonial India's "Fanatical Fakirs" and their Popular Representations

  Rianne Siebenga•History and Anthropology•2012

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• Rammohun Roy and the new language of monotheism

  Partha Mitter•History and Anthropology•1987

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• Enlightenment and Empire, Mughals and Marathas

  Jessica Patterson•History of European Ideas•2019

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• La unificación del hinduismo antes de la época colonial

  Open Access•David N Lorenzen•Estudios de Asia y África•2006

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• The Myth of the Peasant in the Global Organic Farming Movement

  Open Access•Gregory A Barton•Itinerario•2017

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• O Apocalipse da natureza de Walking Stewart (1747-1822)

  Open Access•Daniel Gomes De Carvalho•Varia Historia•2022

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• Os refugos do mundo

  Open Access•Éléni Varikas•Estudos Avançados•2010

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• Unifying Themes in the History of British India, 1757-1857

  Open Access•William A Green, John P Deasy•Albion A Quarterly Journal…•1985

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• An Eighteenth-Century Account of Sati

  Jessica Patterson, Jessica E M Patterson•South Asia Journal of South Asian…•2017

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• The centre cannot hold

  Mishra, Vijay Mishra•South Asia Journal of South Asian…•1989

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• Returning the British to South Asian history

  C A Bayly•South Asia Journal of South Asian…•1994

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• Unity and Plurality

  Will Sweetman•Religion•2001

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• The City and Beyond as Dialogue

  Open Access•P Beyer•Social Compass•1998

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• Orientalist Constructions of India

  Ronald Inden•2022

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• Heathen aboriginals', 'Christian tribes', and 'animistic races

  Open Access•Sangeeta Dasgupta•Modern Asian Studies•2016

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• Order and Disorder in Colonial South India

  Open Access•Eugene F Irschick•Modern Asian Studies•1989

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• The World Rests on the Back of a Tortoise

  Open Access•Parijat Chakrabarti, Pratik Chakrabarti et al.•Modern Asian Studies•2016

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• Time-Sense

  Open Access•Ritika Prasad•Modern Asian Studies•2013

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• Sir William Jones, Biblical Orientalism and Indian Scholarship

  Open Access•Alun David•Modern Asian Studies•1996

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• India and the Identity of Europe

  Chen Tzoref-Ashkenazi•Journal of the History of Ideas•2006

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• The Only Man of Nature That Ever Appeared in the World”

  Open Access•Gregory Claeys•Journal of British Studies•2014

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• India beyond the Ganges

  Open Access•Thibaut D’hubert•The Indian Economic & Social…•2019

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• The Cambridge History of Christianity

  Open Access•Stewart J Brown, Timothy Tackett•Enlightenment, reawakening and…•2006

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• The Viability of a South Asian Homeland

  Edwin Bryant•The quest for the origins of…•2001

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• Linguistic Paleontology

  Edwin Bryant•The quest for the origins of…•2001

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• Aryans in the Archaeological Record

  Edwin Bryant•The quest for the origins of…•2001

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• Linguistic Evidence from Outside of India

  Edwin Bryant•The quest for the origins of…•2001

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• Indo‐European Comparative Linguistics

  Edwin Bryant•The quest for the origins of…•2001

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• Conclusion

  Edwin Bryant•The quest for the origins of…•2001

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• Vedic Philology

  Edwin Bryant•The quest for the origins of…•2001

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• Linguistic Substrata in Sanskrit Texts

  Edwin Bryant•The quest for the origins of…•2001

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• The Indus Valley Civilization

  Edwin Bryant•The quest for the origins of…•2001

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• Myths of Origin

  Edwin Bryant•The quest for the origins of…•2001

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• The Date of the Veda

  Edwin Bryant•The quest for the origins of…•2001

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• Early Indian Responses

  Edwin Bryant•The quest for the origins of…•2001

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• Aryan Origins and Modern Nationalist Discourse

  Edwin Bryant•The quest for the origins of…•2001

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• Aryans in the Archaeological Record

  Edwin Bryant•The quest for the origins of…•2001

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• Colonial Indecision and the Origins of the Hindu Joint Family

  Open Access•Jon Wilson, Jon E Wilson•Domination of Strangers•2008

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• ‘No Less Pious than Sublime’

  Open Access•Andrew Rudd•Sympathy and India in British…•2011

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• Evangelical awakenings in the North Atlantic world

  Open Access•W R Ward•Enlightenment, reawakening and…•2006

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• Christianity and the campaign against slavery and the slave trade

  Open Access•Christopher Leslie Brown•Enlightenment, reawakening and…•2006

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• Christianity in Africa

  Open Access•Lamin Sanneh•Enlightenment, reawakening and…•2006

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• Jansenism and the international suppression of the Jesuits

  Open Access•Dale K Van Kley•Enlightenment, reawakening and…•2006

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• The Christian Enlightenment

  Open Access•Helena Rosenblatt•Enlightenment, reawakening and…•2006

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• Refractions of the Field at Home

  Open Access•K Narayan•Cultural Anthropology•1993

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• Empire and Mission

  Will Sweetman•Social Sciences and Missions•2015

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• Introduction

  Open Access•Michel Picard•The Appropriation of Religion in…•2017

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• The Bible and Empire

  Open Access•R S Sugirtharajah•Bible and Empire•2005

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• Ideologies of the Raj

  Open Access•Thomas R Metcalf, Thomas Metcalf•Ideologies of the Raj•1995

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• The Domination of Strangers

  Jon Wilson, Jon E Wilson•Domination of Strangers•2008

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• The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture

  Edwin Bryant•The quest for the origins of…•2001

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• British 18th-Century Orientalism and Arabic Dialectology

  Araceli González Vázquez, Montserrat Benítez Fernández•Historiographia Linguistica•2016

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• The Modern Emergence of Religions and a Global Social System for Religion

  Open Access•P Beyer•International Sociology•1998

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• Numbers in Nirvana

  Michael Haan•Religion•2005

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• Taken in by the Numbers Game

  Open Access•Martin Petzke•The Sociological Review•2016

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• A Solitary Vindicator of the Hindus

  Open Access•Jorg Fisch•Journal of the Royal Asiatic…•1985

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• De-Centring Religious Singularity

  P Beyer•Numen•2003

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• On Hindu, Hindustān, Hinduism and Hindutva

  Arvind Sharma•Numen•2002

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• TranslatingDharma

  Open Access•Mitch Numark•The Journal of Asian Studies•2011

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• Constitutional Privilege and Constituting Pluralism

  Open Access•P Beyer•Journal for the Scientific Study…•2003

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• Who Invented Hinduism

  Open Access•David N Lorenzen•Comparative Studies in Society…•1999

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• Gender and the Contest over the Indian Past

  Nancy Falk, Nancy Auer Falk•Religion•1998

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• Marco della Tomba and the Brahmin from Banaras

  Open Access•David N Lorenzen•The Journal of Asian Studies•2006

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• Conversion and Demonism

  Open Access•David Scott, David M Scott•Comparative Studies in Society…•1992

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