Unifying Hinduism: Philosophy and Identity in Indian Intellectual History. By Andrew Nicholson
‘Hinduism, as a faith’, wrote Jawaharlal Nehru in his monumental The Discovery of India (1946), ‘is vague, amorphous, many-sided, all things to all men. It is hardly possible to define it, or indeed to say definitely whether it is a religion or not’. Ever mindful of India's religious cosmopolit...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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Literature and theology
Year: 2011, Volume: 25, Issue: 4, Pages: 474-477 |
| Review of: | Unifying Hinduism (New York : Columbia University Press, 2010) (Leach, Robert)
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| Summary: | ‘Hinduism, as a faith’, wrote Jawaharlal Nehru in his monumental The Discovery of India (1946), ‘is vague, amorphous, many-sided, all things to all men. It is hardly possible to define it, or indeed to say definitely whether it is a religion or not’. Ever mindful of India's religious cosmopolitanism, Nehru was nonetheless adamant that ‘Hindu’ has a narrower semantic range than ‘Indian’, an observation deemed necessary, no doubt, by the presence in his own party of Hindu nationalists who would attempt to conflate the two. Later in life, Nehru identified such ‘communalism’ as posing the greatest danger to India's secular democracy (an opinion which has been re-aired recently, courtesy of WikiLeaks, by his great-grandson Rahul Gandhi). |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frr030 |