Slandering the sacred : blasphemy law and religious affect in colonial India /
Scott, J. Barton,
Slandering the sacred : blasphemy law and religious affect in colonial India / J. Barton Scott. - Ranikhet : Permanent Black ; 2023. - 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Class 200: new studies in religion .
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".
Blasphemy--Law and legislation--History--India
Blasphemy--Law and legislation--History--Great Britain
Libel and slander--Religious aspects--History--India
Libel and slander--Religious aspects--History--Great Britain
Freedom of expression--History--India
345.54 BAR P23S
Slandering the sacred : blasphemy law and religious affect in colonial India / J. Barton Scott. - Ranikhet : Permanent Black ; 2023. - 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Class 200: new studies in religion .
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".
Blasphemy--Law and legislation--History--India
Blasphemy--Law and legislation--History--Great Britain
Libel and slander--Religious aspects--History--India
Libel and slander--Religious aspects--History--Great Britain
Freedom of expression--History--India
345.54 BAR P23S