The Limits of Tolerance is a fascinating and important book-a cautionary tale really-that should be read by anyone interested in the global politics of religious freedom. Insisting on the value of the micro-history of the political work that concepts such as tolerance and religious freedom do in very specific times and places, in this case late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century ... Read moreIndia, Adcock makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the way such ideas migrate, transform, and serve partisan political ends.
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Professor and Chair, Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University
The Limits of Tolerance is an exciting and much-needed contribution to our historical understanding of the origins of specifically Indian ideas of religious freedom as freedom from proselytizing, as well as to contemporary debates over the nature of secularism, the political entanglements of religion, and the competing interests of religious toleration, freedom of expression, and governance
Robert A. Yelle, author of The Language of Disenchantment: Protestant Literalism and Colonial Discourse in British India
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