'minute detail'

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>'...which had become the absolute authority for regulating every

>minute detail of Hindu life.'

>

>Is 'minute' redundant here? Or would the sentence be better as

>

>'...which had become the absolute authority for regulating even the

>minutest details of Hindu life.'

>

 

Your second version is better.

 

(For one reason, with your first version one may start to read

"Regulating every minute" with the emphasis on the first syllable and

then have to double back.)