Providence and the Raj: Imperial Mission and Missionary ImperialismHow did the religious beliefs of imperialist Christians shape politics under the Raj? Drawing on disciplines from political economics to theology to literature, Studdert-Kennedy seeks to explain how religious convictions of the British and their notions of Providence played an important part in their colonial rule. |
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