Title Orientalism, empire, and national culture : India, 1770-1880 / Michael S. Dodson

Published Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 268 pages) Series Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series. Contents Introduction: Histories of Empire, Histories of Knowledge -- Orientalism and the Writing of World History -- Sanskrit Erudition and Forms of Legitimacy -- An Empire of the Understanding -- Enlisting Sanskrit on the Side of Progress -- On Language and Translation -- Pandits, Sanskrit Learning, and Europe's 'New Knowledge' -- Afterword: Sanskrit, Authority, National Culture Summary This book is about orientalism in the Indian empire, and examines the varied literary, historical, and linguistic scholarly practices which were used to construct understandings of Indian civilisation. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, British orientalist research was a key strategy for gaining information with which to rule the subcontinent, but also, somewhat paradoxically, to naturalise the Company's state into the South Asian political context. By the middle of the nineteenth century, even while British imperial culture became more confident and intolerant, an in-depth knowledge of India's history and cultures continued to play largely unrecognised roles in furthering the 'civilising mission' of colonial education. Yet rather than understanding orientalism as exclusively linked to British imperial expansion and consolidation, Orientalism, Empire and National Culture also suggests that it was actually composed of a set of 'double practices', by virtue of the British reliance upon Indian scholarly intermediaries, the Sanskrit pandits. Thus, this study revises many commonly held understandings of orientalism by arguing that it was a much more ambiguous, and potentially subversive, enterprise, as Indian Sanskrit scholars also adapted the institutional and social underpinnings of colonial rule to produce newly-inflected, and often overtly anti-colonial, Hindu identities Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-256) and index Notes Print version record Subject Orientalism -- England -- History -- 19th century Sanskrit philology -- Study and teaching -- History -- 19th century Orientalism -- England -- History -- 18th century Sanskrit philology -- Study and teaching -- History -- 18th century Asian history -- c 1800 to c 1900 -- India -- British Empire. Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 -- c 1800 to c 1900 -- India -- British Empire. Social research & statistics -- c 1800 to c 1900 -- India -- British Empire. Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 -- c 1800 to c 1900 -- India -- British Empire. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Globalization. History. Orientalism Sanskrit philology -- Study and teaching Education Orientalistik Sanskritunterricht Oriëntalisme. Sanskriet. Geschiedwetenschap. Orientalisme -- 19e siècle. Orientalisme -- 18e siècle. Philologie indienne (de l'Inde) -- Étude et enseignement -- 19e siècle. Philologie indienne (de l'Inde) -- Étude et enseignement -- 18e siècle. Orientalistik. Sanskritunterricht. SUBJECT India -- Study and teaching -- History -- 19th century India -- Study and teaching -- History -- 18th century Subject England India Großbritannien Indien India. Inde -- Étude et enseignement -- 19e siècle. Inde -- Étude et enseignement -- 18e siècle. Großbritannien. Indien. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230288706 0230288707

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