Dodson, Michael S. (*1968):
Orientalism, empire, and national culture : India, 1770-1880 / Michael S. Dodson. – Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. – XIV, 268 S. : Ill. – (Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series)
ISBN 1-403-98645-2 / 978-1-403-98645-0 ( cloth)
£ 50,00
Beschreibung
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, its principal Indian intermediaries. By revealing the unacknowledged roles which this ‘traditional’ intelligentsia played within elements of the colonial state apparatus, this book traces the conflicts and ambiguities within Orientalism, from the consolidation of Britain’s fledgling Indian empire to its links with the emergence of early forms of Indian national identity and inherently anti-colonial cultural movements. [Verlagsinformation]
Inhalt
Introduction: Histories of Empire, Histories of Knowledge
1. Orientalism and the Writing of World History
2. Sanskrit Erudition and Forms of Legitimacy
3. An Empire of the Understanding
4. Enlisting Sanskrit on the Side of Progress
5. On Language and Translation
6. Pandits, Sanskrit Learning, and Europe’s ‘New Knowledge’
Afterword: Sanskrit, Authority, National Culture
Autor
MICHAEL S. DODSON is Assistant Professor of South Asian and British Imperial History at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. Faculty profile.
Quellen: Palgrave Macmillan; Amazon; Blackwell’s Online.
Schlagwörter: Indien; Großbritannien; Kolonialismus; Geschichte; Pandit; Sanskrit; Orientalismus
