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The Language of Disenchantment: Protestant Literalism and Colonial Discourse in British India. By Robert A. Yelle . pp. xxii, 298. New York, Oxford University Press, 2013.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2014

A.V.M. Horton
A.V.M. Horton*
Affiliation:
Bordesley, Worcestershire. avmhorton@hotmail.com
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , July 2015 , pp. 521 - 523
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1 Hall was ejected from his living after the Restoration and died a few years later. See further Denise Thomas, ‘Religious Polemic, Print Culture, and Pastoral Ministry: Thomas Hall B.D. (1610–1665) and the promotion of Presbyterian Orthodoxy in the English Revolution’ (PhD thesis, University of Birmingham, May 2011).

2 The ‘false doctrine’ appearing on page 42 should be ‘transubstantiation’ (rather than ‘transubstantion’). Professor Yelle seems, further, to be undecided as to whether Macaulay's 1835 Minute on Education was ‘famous’ (p. 84) or ‘infamous’ (p. 33).