The Language of Disenchantment: Protestant Literalism and Colonial Discourse in British India

Robert A. Yelle

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Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Preface Chapter One: Orientalism and the Language of Disenchantment Chapter Two: A Disease of Language: The Attack on Hindu Myth as Verbal Idolatry Chapter Three: One Step from Babel to Pentecost: Colonial Codification, Universal Languages, and the Debate over Roman Transliteration Chapter Four: Vain Repetitions: The Attack on Hindu Mantras Chapter Five: The Hindu Moses: Christian Polemics against Jewish Ritual and the Secularization of Hindu Law Afterword Notes Bibliography

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