Overview

The publication of Edward Said's Orientalism stimulated renewed interest in the relationships between literary discourse and colonial politics. It also reinforced the need to produce discriminating and nuanced readings of Orientalism and the production of Orientalist knowledge, and critics have reconsidered the role played by British Orientalists in the constructions of race and empire. The discourses of race and colonialism were still in the process of formation in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; colonial anxiety, imperial guilt, contradictions, real or imagined, between Enlightenment and Romanticist thinking, the clash of political and religious ideologies, event the simultaneous appearance of colonialist and anti-imperialist rhetoric in the same text all give a raw edge to the transitional nature of the colonial project in this period. This set of reprinted books will represent central documents in the emergence of modern Indology. These texts demonstrate how closely interwoven are the histories of Oriental scholarship and of British administrative policy contributions. The texts also present the Orientalist side of the argument concerning the government of India to balance and oppose the Utilitarian and Anglicist bias implicit in James Mill's History of British India .

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Author:   Michael Franklin
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   7.802kg
ISBN:  

9780415222464

ISBN 10:   041522246
Pages:   4984
Publication Date:   28 September 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Volume I John Zephaniah Holwell Interesting Historical Events Relative to the Provinces of Bengal and the Empire of Industan [1765-67] Volumes II and III Alexander Dow The History of Hindustan, [1770-72] Volume IV Nathaniel Brassey Halhed A Code of Gentoo Laws [1776] Jonathan Scott An Historical and Political View of the Decan, South of the Kistnah [1798] Volumes V and VI Francis Gladwin Ayeen Akbery: or, The Institutes of Emperor Akber [1800] Volumes VII and VIII Asiatick Researches; or, Transactions of the Society Instituted in Bengal, for Inquiring into the History and Antiquities, the Arts, Sciences and Literature of Asia [1788] Volume IX Sir William Jones Institutes of Hindu Law: or, The Ordinances of Menu, According to the Gloss of Culluca. Comprising the Indian System of Duties, Religious and Civil [1796]

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