Hinduism, Belief and the Colonial Invention of Religion: A before and after Comparison
As known from the academic literature on Hinduism, the foreign, Persian word, “Hindu” (meaning “Indian”), was used by the British to name everything indigenously South Asian, which was not Islam, as a religion. If we adopt explication as our research methodology, which consists in the application of...
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2022
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Year: 2022, Volume: 13, Issue: 10 |
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