Orientalism, Empire, and National Culture : India, 1770-1880 / by M. Dodson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dodson, Michael S., 1968-

Series:

Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, 2635-1641

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asia--History.

Asia.

Great Britain--History.

Great Britain.

Ethnology--Asia.

Ethnology.

Culture.

Anthropology.

Literature, Modern--19th century.

Literature, Modern.

History, Modern.

Asian History.

History of Britain and Ireland.

Asian Culture.

Nineteenth-Century Literature.

Modern History.

Local Subjects:

Asian History.

History of Britain and Ireland.

Asian Culture.

Anthropology.

Nineteenth-Century Literature.

Modern History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2007.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-256) and index.

ISBN:

9786613181947

9781283181945

1283181940

9780230288706

0230288707

OCLC:

681923565