Orientalism, Empire, and National Culture seeks to revise this view, and suggests that it was instead composed of a set of 'double practices' in India , by virtue of the British reliance upon Hindu scholarly intermediaries, the Sanskrit pandits. It is thus argued that orientalism was ultimately 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.
| ISBN | 8175967161 | | Publication date | 01 Dec 2010 | | ISBN13 | 9788175967168
(What's this?) | | Pages | 284 | | Publisher | Foundation Books | | Published in | New Delhi | | Imprint | Foundation Books | | Academic level | General | | Format | Paperback | |
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