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18th-century Hindu temples (28 P) Pages in category "18th-century Hinduism" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. H.
These orientalists included all Indian religions such as Buddhism as a subgroup of Hinduism in the 18th century. [67] These texts called followers of Islam as Mohamedans, and all others as Hindus. The text, by the early 19th century, began dividing Hindus into separate groups, for chronology studies of the various beliefs.
From the 18th century onward, India was colonised by the British. This process of colonisation had a huge impact on Indian society: social and religious leaders tried to assimilate into Western culture and modernise Hindu culture. [5]
Over time, the kingdom would increase in size and heterogeneity; [40] by the time of his grandson's rule, and later under the Peshwas in the early 18th century, it became a vast realm. [41] Shivaji had two sons: Sambhaji and Rajaram, who had different mothers and were half-brothers. In 1681, Sambhaji succeeded to the crown after his father's ...
[35] [note 7] Hinduism co-existed for several centuries with Buddhism, [36] to finally gain the upper hand at all levels in the 8th century. [37] [web 1] [note 8] From northern India this "Hindu synthesis", and its societal divisions, spread to southern India and parts of Southeast Asia, as courts and rulers adopted the Brahmanical culture.
Marinas Poullé (Mariyadas Pillai) published a French translation from a Tamil version of the Bhagavata Purana in 1788, and this was widely distributed in Europe becoming an introduction to the 18th-century Hindu culture and Hinduism to many Europeans during the colonial era.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, Brahminism was the most common term used in English for Hinduism. Brahmanism gave importance to Absolute Reality (Brahman) speculations in the early Upanishads , as these terms are etymologically linked, which developed from post-Vedic ideas during the late Vedic era.
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