Orientalism, empire, and national culture

"Orientalism is most often understood as a set of strategies to extend a European will-to-power over the Asian world. Orientalism, Empire, and National Culture seeks to revise this view, and suggests that it was instead composed of a set of "double practices" in India, by virtue of the British reliance upon Hindu scholarly intermediaries, the Sanskrit pandits. It is thus argued that orientalism was ultimately a much more ambiguous, and potentially subversive, enterprise, as Indian Sanskrit scholars also adapted the institutional and social underpinning of colonial rule to produce newly inflected, and often overtly anti-colonial, Hindu identities."--Jacket.

Year

2007

Language

English

Series

Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Editions

1

Pages

268

ISBN

9781403986450

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