TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scott,J.Barton
TI  - Slandering the sacred: blasphemy law and religious affect in colonial India 
T2  - Class 200: new studies in religion
U1  - 345.54 BAR P23S 
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Ranikhet
PB  - Permanent Black
KW  - Blasphemy
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - India
KW  - History
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Libel and slander
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Freedom of expression
N1  - 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"
ER  -