Status Updates From Gods, Guns and Missionaries...

At this point, I have 20 different artifacts that I want to read coming out of just the footnotes.

12 pages into the introduction and I have SO many questions. This is going to alter my life and perception (of my country, past, beliefs etc) and I cannot wait for it to happen

“religion was not ‘a series of propositions to be believed but a series of practices to be undertaken”

“The proposition that Hinduism had higher and lower forms—the first resembling monotheism, the other ‘messily’ polytheistic—was neither new nor a European bifurcation”

“At any rate, if Hindu women were not paying for their murderous propensities by being set alight, they were allowing desire to run amok, letting European observers indulge in all kinds of fantasies.”

soo much to unpack...