Slandering the sacred : blasphemy law and religious affect in colonial India / J. Barton Scott.
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TextSeries: Publication details: Ranikhet : Permanent Black ; 2023.Description: 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmSubject(s): DDC classification: - 345.54 BAR P23S
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Introduction: Secularizing blasphemy -- The merry prophet. Crisis of the public: The Rajpal Affair and its bodies ; Secularism, high and low: making the blasphemy bill -- Blasphemy's empire. Codifying blasphemy: religious feelings between colony and metropole ; Macaulay unmanned, or, Tom governs his feelings ; Libeling religion: secularism and the intimacy of insult -- Polemics as ethics. Printing pain, ruling sentiment: a brief history of Arya insult ; The Arya penal code: law and the practice of documentary religion ; The swami and the prophet: slandering lives, conducting character -- Conclusion: a feeling for "religion".
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