British Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance : The Dynamics of Indian Modernization 1773-1835 / David Kopf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kopf, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bengal (India)--Intellectual life.

Bengal (India).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1969]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Introduction

I. The cultural policy of warren hastings

II. The orientalist in search of a golden age

III. Wellesley's "Oxford of the east"

IV. Recruitment of a faculty

V. The college as pivot of an institutional complex

VI. The college as a center for linguistic modernization and literary revival

VII. The students at the college: indianization and intellectual development

VIII. The college environment and the emergence of a modern intelligentsia in Bengal

IX. Evangelical anti-hinduism and the polarization of cultural policy for India

X. Marquess Hastings's response in Calcutta: orientalist renaissance as a popular culture ideal

XI. The new frontiers of orientalist scholarship under H.H. Wilson

XII. The transmission of orientalist ideals and the intellectual awakening of the Calcutta intelligentsia

XIII. A return to the exile mentality and the dissolution of the college of fort William

XIV. Macaulayism and the defeat of the orientalists

XV. Macaulayism and the Bengali intelligentsia: the seeds of ambivalence and the beginnings of Indian nationalism

XVI. The quest for new perspectives on the encounter of civilizations

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520317178

0520317173

OCLC:

1149452664