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This excellent book argues succinctly and convincingly for the importance of recognising regional, vernacular forms of innovation in processes of Hindu modernisation in colonial South Asia. * South Asia Research * [A] scrupulously researched and textually rich book. . . . Weiss issues a vital corrective admonishing the field of Hindu studies to catch up to current scholarship on religion and globalization and to discard its latent orientalism. * Nova Religio * [Weiss] takes a necessary and ground-breaking step which will hopefully lead students and scholars to rethink and expand the boundaries of colonial Hinduism. . . . This book is an essential read for students and scholars of colonial South Asia and Hinduism. * Reading Religion *

This excellent book argues succinctly and convincingly for the importance of recognising regional, vernacular forms of innovation in processes of Hindu modernisation in colonial South Asia. * South Asia Research *

"""This excellent book argues succinctly and convincingly for the importance of recognising regional, vernacular forms of innovation in processes of Hindu modernisation in colonial South Asia."" * South Asia Research * ""[A] scrupulously researched and textually rich book. . . . Weiss issues a vital corrective admonishing the field of Hindu studies to catch up to current scholarship on religion and globalization and to discard its latent orientalism."" * Nova Religio * ""[Weiss] takes a necessary and ground-breaking step which will hopefully lead students and scholars to rethink and expand the boundaries of colonial Hinduism. . . . This book is an essential read for students and scholars of colonial South Asia and Hinduism."" * Reading Religion * ""This outstanding book is a must-read for all scholars of South Asian and Hindu Studies."" * Religious Studies Review *"

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Richard Weiss is Associate Professor of South Asian Religions at the Victoria University of Wellington. He is author of Recipes for Immortality: Medicine, Religion, and Community in South India.  

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