TY  - BOOK
AU  - Breckenridge, Carol Appadurai, 
AU  - Breckenridge, Carol Appadurai
AU  -  Veer, Peter van der
TI  - Orientalism and the postcolonial predicament : : perspectives on South Asia
T2  - South Asia seminar series.; New cultural studies
SN  - 9780812214369
U1  - 954  BRE 
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Philadelphia 
PB  - : University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - History
KW  - History of Asia
KW  - India & neighboring south Asian countries
KW  - South Asia
KW  - Fremdbild
KW  - South Asia -- Study and teaching -- Congresses
N1  - 	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 --
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N2  - 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
ER  -