Was the Sanskrit Bible the ‘English Bible-in-Disguise’?

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" Was the Sanskrit Bible the ‘English Bible-in-Disguise’? "
Richard Fox Young

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1068979
Doc. No	:	LA112608
Call No	:	‭10.1163/25424246-00102002‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Richard Fox Young
Title & Author	:	Was the Sanskrit Bible the ‘English Bible-in-Disguise’? [Article]\ Richard Fox Young
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	International Journal of Asian Christianity
Date	:	2018
Volume/ Issue Number	:	1/2
Page No	:	177–197
Abstract	:	The essay explores Bible translation in early nineteenth-century India as a comprehensive and under-appreciated site for intercultural and interreligious interactions involving Christians and Hindus in a complex context of asymmetrical colonial relations. Postcolonial theorists are interrogated for theory-driven approaches that lopsidedly rely on English-language resources without taking into account the actual Indian-language artefacts of translation projects that came into being. Using a philological approach, the essay treats the Dharmapustaka, the Sanskrit Bible translated at the Serampore Baptist Mission, as a case study in ‘transculturation’—a multidimensional process catalyzed by an English missionary, William Carey, on the edges between India and Europe. The essay explores Bible translation in early nineteenth-century India as a comprehensive and under-appreciated site for intercultural and interreligious interactions involving Christians and Hindus in a complex context of asymmetrical colonial relations. Postcolonial theorists are interrogated for theory-driven approaches that lopsidedly rely on English-language resources without taking into account the actual Indian-language artefacts of translation projects that came into being. Using a philological approach, the essay treats the Dharmapustaka, the Sanskrit Bible translated at the Serampore Baptist Mission, as a case study in ‘transculturation’—a multidimensional process catalyzed by an English missionary, William Carey, on the edges between India and Europe.
Descriptor	:	Asian Studies
Descriptor	:	Bible
Descriptor	:	mission history
Descriptor	:	philology
Descriptor	:	postcolonialism
Descriptor	:	Religion in Asia
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Sanskrit
Descriptor	:	Theology and World Christianity
Descriptor	:	transculturation
Descriptor	:	translation
Descriptor	:	World Christianity
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/25424246-00102002‬