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100	1		_aScott, J. Barton,
245	1	0	_aSlandering the sacred : _bblasphemy law and religious affect in colonial India / _cJ. Barton Scott.
260			_aRanikhet : _bPermanent Black ; _c2023.
300			_a294 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm.
490	1		_aClass 200: new studies in religion
505	0		_aIntroduction: 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".
650		0	_aBlasphemy _xLaw and legislation _zIndia _xHistory
650		0	_aBlasphemy _xLaw and legislation _zGreat Britain _xHistory
650		0	_aLibel and slander _zIndia _xReligious aspects _xHistory
650		0	_aLibel and slander _zGreat Britain _xReligious aspects _xHistory
650		0	_aFreedom of expression _zIndia _xHistory
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