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.
| ISBN: | 9781403986450 |
| Publication date: | 15th February 2007 |
| Author: | Michael S Dodson |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 268 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series |
| Genres: |
Asian history Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Cultural studies Anthropology European history History |
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.
Orientalism, Empire, and National Culture features in the following genres: Asian history, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Cultural studies, Anthropology, European history, History
Orientalism, Empire, and National Culture is available in Hardback
Orientalism, Empire, and National Culture was written by Michael S Dodson and published by Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK
Orientalism, Empire, and National Culture has 268 pages
Yes it is part of Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series series