Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity by Manu S Pillai Groundswell Speaker 2024 Publication: 12 Oct 2023

Publication: 12 Oct 2023

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opera and program music stories paired with 10-second sound clips of orchestras playing from their musical scores

Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity by Manu S Pillai Groundswell Speaker 2024 Publication: 12 Oct 2023When European missionaries arrived in India in the sixteenth century, they entered a world both fascinating and bewildering. Hinduism, as they saw it, was a pagan mess: a worship of devils and monsters by a people who burned women alive, performed outlandish rites and fed children to crocodiles. But it quickly became clear that Hindu idolatry was far more layered and complex than European stereotypes allowed, surprisingly even sharing certain impulses