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Querying the Medieval: Texts and the History of Practices in South Asia
ISBN: 9780195124309 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Indologist Ronald Inden has in the past raised questions about the images of a "traditional" or "medieval" India deployed by colonial scholars and rulers--"Orientalists"--and has also argued that a history of "early medieval" India very different from both the colonial and nationalist accounts could be written. This volume is designed as an important first step towards that goal. The authors look closely at three genres of texts that have been crucial to the representations of precolonial India. All three essays challenge not only colonialist scholarship but the attempts by religious...
Indologist Ronald Inden has in the past raised questions about the images of a "traditional" or "medieval" India deployed by colonial scholars and rul...
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Imagining India
ISBN: 9780253213587 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "An important book, a major work, that must be read and absorbed by those involved in scholarship, or any critical enterprise." The Independent How does the Western world represent India? To what extent is knowledge of the people and institutions of the Indian sub-continent based on the West's own desires for world hegemony, and fantasies about its rationality? In this controversial and widely-praised book, Inden argues that the West's major depictions of India as the civilization of caste, villages, spiritualism, and divine kings and as a land dominated by imagination rather... "An important book, a major work, that must be read and absorbed by those involved in scholarship, or any critical enterprise." The Independent ... |
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