TABLE OF CONTENTS: Acknowledgments ix
INTRODUCTION 3 CHAPTER ONE Secularity and Religion 14
The Separation of Church and State 16
Religion 24
Concluding Remarks 28 CHAPTER TWO The Moral State: Religion, Nation, and Empire 30
The Moral State in Britain 34
The Colonial Mission in India 41
Concluding Remarks 53 CHAPTER THREE The Spirits of the Age: Spiritualism and Political Radicalism 55
British Spirits 58
India's Spiritual Heritage 66
Concluding Remarks 77 CHAPTER FOUR Moral Muscle: Masculinity and Its Religious Uses 83
Muscular Christianity 85
Hindustani Honor 94
The Internal Enemy 101
Concluding Remarks 104 CHAPTER FIVE Monumental Texts: Orientalism and the Critical Edition of India's National Heritage 106
Müller's Science 107
India's Adoption of German Wissenschaft 116
Texts and the Nationalist Imaginaire 122
Speaking, Writing, Watching 129
Concluding Remarks 131 CHAPTER SIX Aryan Origins 134
The Aryan Myth 136
From Language to Skulls 144
Race, Class and Criminality 150
Concluding Remarks 155 Conclusion 158
Notes 161
Bibliography 179
Index 191
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