Explores British interpretations of Hinduism at a crucial period in the East India Company's conquest of Bengal.

An original interpretation of the early European Enlightenment and the politics of religion in later Stuart England and its global empire. William J. Bulman pro

In the late eighteenth century, an array of European political thinkers attacked the very foundations of imperialism, arguing passionately that empire-building

Peter Gottschalk offers a compelling study of how, through the British implementation of scientific taxonomy in the subcontinent, Britons and Indians identified

This publication offers a critical survey of religious change and its causes in 18th-century Europe. Focusing on the Enlightenment in Italy, France and England,