ISBN:
1403986452
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9781403986450
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 268 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Orientalism, Empire, and National Culture : India, 1770-1880
DDC:
303.48/24205409034
Keywords:
Orientalism History 18th century
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Sanskrit philology Study and teaching 19th century
;
History
;
Orientalism History 19th century
;
Sanskrit philology Study and teaching 18th century
;
History
;
Orientalism -- England -- History -- 19th century
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Sanskrit philology -- Study and teaching -- History -- 19th century
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Orientalism -- England -- History -- 18th century
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Sanskrit philology -- Study and teaching -- History -- 18th century
;
India -- Study and teaching -- History -- 19th century
;
India -- Study and teaching -- History -- 18th century
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Electronic books
;
India Study and teaching 19th century
;
History
;
India Study and teaching 18th century
;
History
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-256) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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