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1997
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Peter van der Veer et al., « L'État moral: religion, nation et Empire dans la Grande-Bretagne victorienne et l'Inde britannique », Genèses. Sciences sociales et histoire, ID : 10.3406/genes.1997.1433
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The Moral State: Religion, Nation and Empire in Victorian Great Britain and British India The comparative study of the role played by religion in the emergence of nationalism in Great Britain and India underscores the political importance of evangelist movements that legitimised the "civilising mission" of the English by developing the notion of a "moral' State", a discourse that culminated in the final decades of the century in the idea of "racial superiority". A vector of English. Scottish and Irish nationalism,- religion was nevertheless a decisive impediment to integrating the various elements of society into the British nation-state. The comparison with India also shows the strengthening of the links between religion (Hinduism) and nationalism. But in this case, for reasons . stemming from the structure of colonial society itself, the connection culminated : in the institutionalisation of religious partition between Hindus and Muslims.