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How does the Western world represent India? In this controversial and widely-praised book, the author argues that the West's major depictions of India have deprived Indians of their capacity to rule thir own world.
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…
The author offers a critique of the presuppositions behind the discourses which have claimed to reveal the truth about India. He discusses how a succession of writers have built upon the misconceptions of their predecessors and used these misconceptions to bolster Western self-p…