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The book Imagining Hinduism offers a fresh and important way to look at Western Hinduism. Sharada Sugirtharajah uses current postcolonial concepts to examine how Hinduism was defined, interpreted, and manufactured by Western categorizations. This covers the period from the foreign interventions of missionaries and Orientalists in the 18th and 19th centuries, up to today. She argues that since the early Orientalists discovered the Sanskrit texts of the Hindu Golden Age’, the West’s complex fascination with Hinduism has been ambivalent. They have responded to it in a variety of ways, from romantic admiration to ridicule. She also focuses on how Hindu discourses have drawn from Orientalist representations to define Hindu identity and create a monolithic Hinduism in both the Indian and diasporic contexts. Imagining Hinduism is the first comprehensive postcolonial critique of Hinduism. It provides a critical and informed understanding of the ways Europeans and Hindus interact with Hinduism.

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