01304nam a22001577a 4500999001900000008004100019100003800060245002300098260003200121300003600153520079000189773003200979906001701011942000701028952011101035  c533334d533334260514b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aReviewed by Adit Shankar  960503  aDefied distortions  aBiblio: A Review of Books    a30(7-8), Jul-Sep, 2025: p.17-18  a Gode, Gune  and missionaries: The making of the modern Hindu identity by Manu S. Pillai allen lane/Penguin Random house India, 2024, 664pp. Rs. 554 (HB) ISBNK 9780670093656.


Today we see religion and identity being completely conterminous. But Pillai suggests this wasn’t always the ease; practices that we consider HINDU have excised and evolved in the subcontinent over centuries. When and how does ‘Hindu’ become a market of selfhood. Pillai finds answerer in the subcontinent’s prolonged encounter with colonialism and Christianity, which is the subject of the book. Stable, monotheistic ideas of religion floundered in the bewildering chasos of the subcontinent gods, rituals, and beliefs, prompting Europeans to seeks order and definition within this chaos. Reproduce   aBiblio: A Review of Books    aBOOK REVIEW   cAR  00102ddc40709408504aIIPAbIIPAd2026-05-14h30(7-8), Jul-Sep, 2025: p.17-18pAR138846r2026-05-14yAR