Format:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 268 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
1403986452
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9781403986450
Series Statement:
Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
Content:
Orientalist research has most often been characterised as an integral element of the European will-to-power over the Asian world. This study seeks to nuance this view, and asserts that British Orientalism in India was also an inherently complex and unstable enterprise, predicated upon the cultural authority of the Sanskrit pandits
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-256) and index
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Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; A Note on Transliteration; Introduction Histories of Empire, Histories of Knowledge; 1 Orientalism and the Writing of World History; 2 Sanskrit Erudition and Forms of Legitimacy; 3 An Empire of the Understanding; 4 Enlisting Sanskrit on the Side of Progress; 5 On Language and Translation; 6 Pandits, Sanskrit Learning, and Europe's 'New Knowledge'; Afterword Sanskrit, Authority, National Culture; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781403986450
Additional Edition:
Print version Orientalism, Empire, and National Culture : India, 1770-1880
Language:
English
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