Imagining India
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 than reason -- have had the effect of depriving Indians o…
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- Full title :Imagining India / Ronald Inden.
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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 than reason -- have had the effect of depriving Indians of their capacity to rule their world, which has consequently been appropriated by those in the West who wish to dominate it.--Back cover.
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- Publication Date:©2000.
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- Publisher(s):Indiana University Press
- Place of Publication:Bloomington, IN
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2000.
Notes
Originally published: Cambridge, Ma : Blackwell, 1990.
The Physical Object
- Description:xiii, 298 pages ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0253336899, 9780253336897, 0253213584, 9780253213587
- oclc:ocm43561844
- LC Classification:DS435.8
- Dewey Decimal:954/.0072
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