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Author Jones, Kenneth W

Title Socio-religious reform movements in British India / Kenneth W. Jones
Published Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989

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Description 1 online resource (x, 243 pages) : maps
Series New Cambridge history of India ; III, 1
New Cambridge history of India ; III, 1.
Contents Concepts and context -- Bengal and north-eastern India -- The Gangetic core: Uttar Pradesh and Bihar -- Punjab and the North-West -- The central belt and Maharashtra -- The Dravidian South -- The Twentieth Century: socio-religious movements in a politicized world -- Conclusion: Religion in history -- Glossary of Indian terms
Summary The author looks at the numerous 19th movements for social and religious change - Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, and Zoroastrian - that used various forms of religious authority to legitimise their reform programmes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Religion and sociology -- India
Religion.
Religion and sociology.
Sociale bewegingen.
SUBJECT India -- Religion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064947
Subject India.
Brits Indiƫ.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780511468735
0511468733
9781139055673
1139055674
0521055962
9780521055963