Orientalism, Empire and National Culture
India, 1770-1880
Dodson, Michael S.
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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 unsta
BOOK SYNOPSIS
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, its principal Indian intermediaries. By revealing the unacknowledged roles which this ‘traditional’ intelligentsia played within elements of the colonial state apparatus, this book traces the conflicts and ambiguities within Orientalism, from the consolidation of Britain’s fledgling Indian empire to its links with the emergence of early forms of Indian national identity and inherently anti-colonial cultural movements.
AUTHOR BIO
MICHAEL S. DODSON is Assistant Professor of South Asian and British Imperial History at Indiana University.
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ISBN: 1403986452
ISBN(13-digit): 9781403986450
Dewey Decimal: 303.48/24205409034
Library of Congress: 2006051437
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 268
