A unique study of how a deeply religious country like India acquired the laws and policies of a secular state, highlighting the contradictory effects of British imperial policies, the complex role played by Indian Christians, and how this highly divided community shaped its own identity and debated that of their new nation.
ISBN: | 9781349305575 |
Publication date: | 1st January 2011 |
Author: | N. Chatterjee |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 337 pages |
Series: | Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies |
Genres: |
Asian history European history Social and cultural history History |