How does the Western world imagine India? How far are commonly held suppositions about the nature and character of the Indian sub-continent dictated by distortions perpetuated by generations of writers in a wide variety of disciplines? In this book Ronald Inden offers a critique of the presuppositions behind the discourses which have claimed to reveal the truth about India. He shows how a succession of writers - not only Indologists but also scholars in such fields as religion, anthropology, economics and political ...
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How does the Western world imagine India? How far are commonly held suppositions about the nature and character of the Indian sub-continent dictated by distortions perpetuated by generations of writers in a wide variety of disciplines? In this book Ronald Inden offers a critique of the presuppositions behind the discourses which have claimed to reveal the truth about India. He shows how a succession of writers - not only Indologists but also scholars in such fields as religion, anthropology, economics and political philosophy - have built upon the misconceptions of their predecessors and have used such misconceptions to bolster Western self-perceptions. European scholars and their doubles, the colonial administrators and traders, assumed for themselves the power to know the hidden essences of the country and to act upon them, thereby sustaining the West's image of itself as the epitome of the modern.
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Good in Fair dust jacket. 0631169237. Pencil notes and underlining scattered through the text, otherwise solid, reading condition; some wear, tear and sunning to dust jacket; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 299 pages.
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