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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Map -- Introduction: Aryanism and the Webs of Empire -- 1 The Emergence of Aryanism: Company Orientalism, Colonial Governance and Imperial Ethnology -- Trade to dominion: the birth of Company Orientalism -- Language and colonial power -- Patronage and the institutional basis of colonial knowledge -- Sir William Jones, Sanskrit and human origins -- Language and cultural comparison -- Colebrook and the Vedic golden age -- The impact of Sanskritocentrism -- Indocentrism: the Scottish Enlightenment in 'Further India' -- Orientalism, the Irish Enlightenment and settler self-fashioning -- Prichardian ethnology and the Anglo-Saxon revival -- Max Müller and the Aryan theory -- Aryans, India and 1857 -- Aryanism as an ethnological tool -- Regional variation and the limits of racialization: Punjab -- Conclusion -- 2 Indocentrism on the New Zealand Frontier: Geographies of Race, Empire and Nation -- Pacific exploration and the question of origins -- The Semitic Maori? -- Richard Taylor and the emergence of Indocentrism -- Indocentrism consolidated: Edward Shortland -- Colonial science and philology -- J. T. Thomson and the 'Barata' race -- Tregear and the Aryan Maori -- Conflict, consensus and synthesis: Indocentrism 1885-c. 1930 -- The death of Indocentrism: racial origins and the rise of nationalism -- Conclusion -- 3 Systematizing Religion: from Tahiti to the Tat Khalsa -- 'Religion' -- Presence and absence: Tahiti and New Zealand -- A discourse of negation: the search for Maori religion -- Missionary ethnography -- Affirmation: religion in India -- The structure of Brahmanical Hinduism: vaidik and laukik -- Evangelical critiques of Hinduism -- The 'jungle': Hinduism and ethnography -- Sikhism: Nanak and the Indian 'Reformation' -- Dissenting voices: Evangelical attacks on Sikhism.