Constructing “Hinduism”: The impact of the protestant missionary movement on Hindu self-understanding

Christians and Missionaries in India: Cross-Cultural Communication since 1500

Volumn 9780203061084, Issue , 2013, Pages 155-182

  Oddie, Geoffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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