Nineteenth-Century Views of Religion in British India

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General

• "The Religions of India" (Blackwood's 1857)

Buddhism

• Buddhism in India
• Buddhist Architecture in India 250 B.C.-750 A.D.

Hindusim

• Introduction
• The Caste System
• Hindu (or Brahmanical) Architecture, 1000-1300 A.D. with examples
• Hindu (Chalukyan) Architecture, 1000-1200 A.D., with examples
• Hindu (Dravidian) Architecture in India, 1350-1750 A.D. with examples

Jainism

• Jainism in India
• Jaina Architecture, 1000-1300 A.D., with later revivals, with examples

Islam

• Islam in South Asia
• Saracenic (or Muslim) Architecture
• Mogul Architecture

Other Major Religions

• Sikhism
• Parseeism
• Native Christians

Victorian Descriptions of the Religions of Various Minority Groups

• The Khands and Ritual Human-Self-Sacrifice
• The Gonds, a Primitive Tribe that Practices Cannibalism
• The Thugs or Thugees and Ritualized Murder as Religious Practice
• The Kalhis, Northern Sun Worshippers

Anglican and other Christian denominations

• Bishop Reginald Heber, second Bishop of Calcutta
• The Right Rev. Dr. Milman, new Bishop of Calcutta
• Bishop Robert Caldwell, Tinnevuly, S. India (missionary and scholar)
• The Church of England (Anglicanism)
• Religion in Victorian England

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