Abstract

Notes on the contributors Preface - Rajaram Hegde Acknowledgements Introduction: Rethinking Religion in India - Marianne Keppens and Esther Bloch Part I: Historical and Empirical Arguments 1. Hindus and Others - David N. Lorenzen 2. Hindu Religious Identity with Special Reference to the Origin and Significance of the Term 'Hinduism', c. 1787-1947 - Geoffrey A. Oddie 3. Representing Religion in Colonial India - John Zavos 4. Colonialism and Religion - Sharada Sugirtharajah 5. Women, the Freedom Movement, and Sanskrit: Notes on Religion and Colonialism from the Ethnographic Present - Laurie L. Patton Part II: Theoretical Reflections 6. Colonialism, Hinduism and the Discourse of Religion - Richard King 7. Who Invented Hinduism? Rethinking Religion in India - Timothy Fitzgerald 8. Orientalism, Postcolonialism and the 'Construction' of Religion - S.N. Balagangadhara 9. The Colonial Construction of What? - Jakob De Roover and Sarah Claerhout

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