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

Settle in with Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity from Manu S. Pillai. This unabridged audiobook sits comfortably in Religion & Spirituality and plays straight in your browser.

Hinduism, as they saw it, was a pagan a worship of devils and monsters by a people who burned women alive, performed outlandish rites and fed children to crocodiles. But it quickly became clear that Hindu ‘idolatry’ was far more layered and complex than European stereotypes allowed, surprisingly even sharing certain impulses with Christianity. Nonetheless, missionaries **A Financial Times Best Summer Book of 2025 ** ‘A brave and magnificent book, and a vital 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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