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James Vaughan’s The Religious History of India, the Trident the Crescent, and the Cross is a seminal study of religion in India over the course of history, and it was published within the context of British involvement and colonization. Thus, Vaughan seeks to teach British readers about India’s religious past, including Hinduism and Islam that spread as a result of the Muslim Conquest. He noted in the preface:
“My aim has been to stir up among thoughtful and intelligent Christians a deeper interest in India by making its religious history better known. Surely nothing within the whole range of history is more profoundly mysterious and more awfully solemn than the religious history of India. To the antiquarian, the philosopher, the metaphysician, this subject presents a rare field for research and study; to an earnest Christian it appeals with special force; in the mind of such an one it awakens sentiments of tender sympathy and thrilling interest; to such an one this history suggests far more than a curious study of ancient superstitions and psychological eccentricities; it reveals to him the struggles of the human mind for thirty centuries to settle momentous questions which the fight of Revelation alone can solve; it shows a mighty nation, sprung from the same primeval stock with ourselves, for so many ages ' feeling after God if haply it might find Him ;' it shows that same nation, after endless vicissitudes of fruitless search and speculation, providentially brought into the closest alliance with ourselves, and mutely craving the spiritual crumbs which fall from our table.”