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Breckenridge, Carol Appadurai,

Orientalism and the postcolonial predicament : perspectives on South Asia / Carol Appadurai Breckenridge; - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1993. - viii, 355 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - South Asia seminar series.; New cultural studies. .

Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament / C.A. Breckenridge and P.van der Veer --
The foreign hand: Orientalist discourse in Sociology / P.van der Veer --
Orientalism and the Social Sciences / J. Lele --
Deep Orientalism? Notes on Sanskrit and Power beyond the Raj / S. Pollock --
The burden of English / G.C. Spivak --
Orientalism and the study of Indian Literatures / V. Dharwadker --
The fate of Hindustani: Colonial knowledge and the project of a National Language / D. Lelyveld --
British Orientalism in the Eighteenth Century: The Dialectics of Knowledge and Government / R. Rocher --
Orientalist Empiricism: Transformations of Colonial Knowledge / D. Ludden --
Colonial Histories and Native Informants: Biography of an Archive / N.B. Dirks --
Number in the Colonial Imagination / A. Appadurai --
Index.

This book explores the ways in which colonial administrators constructed knowledge about the society and culture of India and the processes through which that knowledge has shaped past and present Indian reality.

ISBN: 9780812214369

Publisher. No.: amazon India

Subjects--Topical Terms:
History
History of Asia
India & neighboring south Asian countries;
South Asia.
Fremdbild.
South Asia -- Study and teaching -- Congresses.
South Asia -- Study and teaching -- Congresses.

Dewey Class. No.: 954 BRE