Gods, Guns & Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity

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*A Financial Times Best Summer Book of 2025 * 'A brave and magnificent book, and a vital intervention: as elegant as it is witty, as erudite as it is wise, and as stylish as it is scholarly. Manu Pillai is fast becoming one of India's most accomplished and impressively wide-ranging historians' William Dalrymple When European missionaries arrived in India in the sixteenth century, they entered a world both fascinating and bewildering.

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