Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies: India, 1770-1880

Dodson, M.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2007-02-15

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781403986450

DOI: 10.1057/9780230288706

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 268