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020 _a9780199924998 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 _a9780199925018 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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100 1 _aYelle, Robert A.
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245 1 4 _aThe language of disenchantment :
_bProtestant literalism and colonial discourse in British India /
_cRobert A. Yelle.
260 _aNew York :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2013.
300 _axxii, 298 p. ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p.253-284) and index.
505 0 _aOrientalism and the language of disenchantment -- "A disease of language": the attack on Hindu myth as verbal idolatry -- "One step from Babel to Pentecost": colonial codification, universal languages, and the debate over Roman transliteration -- "Vain repetitions": the attack on Hindu mantras -- The Hindu Moses: Christian polemics against Jewish ritual and the secularization of Hindu law.
650 0 _aHinduism and culture
_zIndia.
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650 0 _aLanguage and languages
_xReligious aspects
_xHinduism.
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650 0 _aHinduism
_zIndia.
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650 0 _aProtestantism
_xInfluence.
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