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Orientalism is most often understood as a set of strategies to extend a European will-to-power over the Asian world. 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 - 9788175967168
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Pages : 284
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