Colonial Indology. (Record no. 62918)

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028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : Donated by Prof. B.D. Chattopadhyaya ( Sudeshna Guha)
Distributor address : Kolkata
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 954.01 CHA
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Chakrabarti, Dilip K.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Colonial Indology.
Statement of responsibility, etc / Dilip K. Chakrabarti.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc New Delhi
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 1997.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xi, 257p.
Dimensions : 24cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 00
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc This book explores some underlying theoretical premises of the Western study of ancient India. These premises developed in response to the colonial need to manipulate the Indians' perception of their past. The need was felt most strongly from the middle of the nineteenth century onwards, and an elaborate racist framework, in which the interrelationship between race, language and culture was a key element, slowly emerged as an explanation of the ancient Indian historical universe. The measure of its success is obvious from the fact that the Indian nationalist historians left this framework unchallenged, preferring to dispute it only in some comparatively minor matters of detail. This book argues that this framework is still in place, and implicitly accepted not merely by Western Indologists but also by their Indian counterparts. The image of the ancient Indian past remains the same. The persistence of the old image is reflective of India's relationship as a part of the Third World with the West and Western historical scholarship. This book has a further argument. Mere dismantling of the current racist structure of our perception of ancient India and all that implies will not lead by itself to an Indian perception of the ancient Indian past. Besides, any alternative sense of this past should be something in which all Indians, irrespective of their individual affiliations, can feel having a share. Among other things, the book underlines the total inadequacy of ancient Indian texts to offer fine resolution historical images in chronological and geographical order, and argues that this goal is unlikely to be achieved by combining our historical texts with some social science theories. This can be achieved only through detailed grassroots investigations of the ancient history of the land and its interrelations with human beings. The academic context of the book lies in an increasingly expanding area of archaeological studies of the sociopolitics of the past.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Indology
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Colonial Indology
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Ancient India
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Dilip K. Chakrabarti
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 11/03/2025 Donated by Prof. B.D. Chattopadhyaya ( Sudeshna Guha) 0.00   954.01 CHA G4218 11/03/2025 11/03/2025 Books Donated by Prof. B.D. Chattopadhyaya ( Sudeshna Guha)
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