Imagining hinduism: a postcolonial perspective
Imagining Hinduism examines how Hinduism has been defined, interpreted and manufactured through Western categorizations, from the foreign interventions of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Orientalists and missionaries, to the present day. Sugirtharajah argues that ever since early Orientalists 'discovered' the ancient Sanskrit texts and the Hindu 'golden age', the West has nurtured a complex and ambivalent fascination with Hinduism, ranging from romantic admiration to ridicule. At the same tim…
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- Full title :Imagining hinduism : a postcolonial perspective / Sharada Sugirtharajah.
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Imagining Hinduism examines how Hinduism has been defined, interpreted and manufactured through Western categorizations, from the foreign interventions of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Orientalists and missionaries, to the present day. Sugirtharajah argues that ever since early Orientalists 'discovered' the ancient Sanskrit texts and the Hindu 'golden age', the West has nurtured a complex and ambivalent fascination with Hinduism, ranging from romantic admiration to ridicule. At the same time, Hindu discourse has drawn upon Orientalist representations in order to redefine Hindu identity. As.
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- Publication Date:2003.
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- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2003.
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- Description:1 online resource (xviii, 164 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:020363411X, 9780203634110, 0415257433, 9780415257435, 9780415257442, 0415257441
- oclc:ocm54829051
- LC Classification:BL1205
- Dewey Decimal:294.5/07/22
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