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Orientalism and the postcolonial predicament : perspectives on South Asia / Carol Appadurai Breckenridge;

By: Breckenridge, Carol AppaduraiContributor(s): Breckenridge, Carol Appadurai | Veer, Peter van derMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: ;amazon India Series: South Asia seminar series.; New cultural studiesPublication details: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1993Description: viii, 355 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: 9780812214369Subject(s): History | History of Asia | India & neighboring south Asian countries | South Asia | Fremdbild | South Asia -- Study and teaching -- Congresses | South Asia -- Study and teaching -- CongressesDDC classification: 954 BRE

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	SNU LIBRARY	954 BRE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan	Faculty Development Programme ( Art & Design Dept ) Mrs Aadya Kaktikar		26368

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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.

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