Tracing the varying fortunes of Orientalist scholars from the inception of British rule, this study charts the work of key Indologists in the colonial era. The rhetorical constructions of East and West deployed by both colonizer and colonized, as well as attempts to synthesize or transcend such constructions, became crucial to conceptions of the 'modern'.
Tracing the varying fortunes of Orientalist scholars from the inception of British rule, this study charts the work of key Indologists in the colonial era. The rhetorical constructions of East and West deployed by both colonizer and colonized, as well as attempts to synthesize or transcend such constructions, became crucial to conceptions of the 'modern'.
Amit Ray is Assistant Professor of Literature at Rochester Institute of Technology. His recent work has appeared in the International Journal of the Humanities, The New Dictionary of the History of Ideas and the collection, Romantic Orientalism, edited by Michael J. Franklin.
Inhaltsangabe
1. After Empire: British Orientalism in Decline 2. Orientalism, Antiquity and the Beginnings of British Colonial Rule in India: The Textual Basis of Early Orientalism-Hastings, Jones, Mill 3. Orienalism, Vedanta and Indian Modernity: Raja Rammohan Ray on Sanskritic Antiquity 4. Colonial Divides and Shared Orientalisms: Kipling and Tagore in the World 5. Modernist Orientalism and Empathetic Subjectivity: Mrs. Dalloway and the Discontents of Modernity Notes Bibliography Index
1. After Empire: British Orientalism in Decline 2. Orientalism, Antiquity and the Beginnings of British Colonial Rule in India: The Textual Basis of Early Orientalism-Hastings, Jones, Mill 3. Orienalism, Vedanta and Indian Modernity: Raja Rammohan Ray on Sanskritic Antiquity 4. Colonial Divides and Shared Orientalisms: Kipling and Tagore in the World 5. Modernist Orientalism and Empathetic Subjectivity: Mrs. Dalloway and the Discontents of Modernity Notes Bibliography Index
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