This book explores literary and scholarly representations of India from the 18th to the early 20th centuries in South Asia and the West with idolatry as a point of entry. It reveals how religion and paganism, history and literature, oriental thought and western metaphysics, and social reform and education were unfolded and debated by them.
This book explores literary and scholarly representations of India from the 18th to the early 20th centuries in South Asia and the West with idolatry as a point of entry. It reveals how religion and paganism, history and literature, oriental thought and western metaphysics, and social reform and education were unfolded and debated by them.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Swagato Ganguly is currently Editorial Page Editor, The Times of India and is based in New Delhi, India. He was educated in Kolkata, Delhi and Philadelphia. He has been a fellow of the American Institute of Indian Studies, Chicago, and earned a doctoral degree in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania, after which he took up a career in journalism.
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Acknowledgments. Introduction: Idolatry from Plato to Indiana Jones 1. William Jones and James Mill: The Duplicity of the Colonial Image 2. Idolatry and Fetishism in the Fin-de-siècle: the Orientalism of Friedrich Max Müller 3. The Aesthetic Image and the Idolatrous Grotesque: John Ruskin, Alice Perrin and E.M. Forster 4. Reforming Idolatrous Hinduism: Rammohan Roy and Bankimchandra Chatterjee 5. Conclusion: Idolatry, Ideology and the Nation-State. References. Index
Acknowledgments. Introduction: Idolatry from Plato to Indiana Jones 1. William Jones and James Mill: The Duplicity of the Colonial Image 2. Idolatry and Fetishism in the Fin-de-siècle: the Orientalism of Friedrich Max Müller 3. The Aesthetic Image and the Idolatrous Grotesque: John Ruskin, Alice Perrin and E.M. Forster 4. Reforming Idolatrous Hinduism: Rammohan Roy and Bankimchandra Chatterjee 5. Conclusion: Idolatry, Ideology and the Nation-State. References. Index
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