Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament

Perspectives on South Asia
Herausgeber: Breckenridge, Carol A; Veer, Peter van der

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the ways in which colonial administrators constructed knowledge about the society and culture of India and the processes through which that knowledge has shaped past and present Indian reality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780812214369
• ISBN-10: 0812214366
• Artikelnr.: 22039532

Autorenporträt

Edited by Carol A. Breckenridge and Peter van der Veer

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament
PT. I. THE POSTCOLONIAL PREDICAMENT AND CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
1. The Foreign Hand: Orientalist Discourse in Sociology and Communalism
2. Orientalism and the Social Sciences
3. Deep Orientalism? Notes on Sanskrit and Power Beyond the Raj
4. The Burden of English
5. Orientalism and the Study of Indian Literatures
PT. II. THE GENEALOGY OF THE POSTCOLONIAL
6. The Fate of Hindustani: Colonial Knowledge and the Project of a National
Language
7. British Orientalism in the Eighteenth Century: The Dialectics of
Knowledge and Government
8. Orientalist Empiricism: Transformations of Colonial Knowledge
9. Colonial Histories and Native Informants: Biography of an Archive
10. Number in the Colonial Imagination
List of Contributors
Index