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This project explores how Catholic missionaries represented Hinduism in the 17th and 18th centuries. By analyzing historical texts and visual sources, it aims to reveal the complexities of religious representation and the cultural exchanges between Europe and India during this period.
This two-year project is a contribution to the current post-colonial debates on orientalism and, more specifically, on the extent to which Hinduism was also a European construction.
The aim is to analyze the representations that Catholic missionaries developed between the Seventeenth and the early Eighteenth centuries to interpret Hinduism.
The period considered follows the end of the Portuguese monopoly on the sea route to India and precedes the emergence of secular indology.
From the early se…
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