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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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Preface
Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament
PT. I. THE POSTCOLONIAL PREDICAMENT AND CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
1. The Foreign Hand: Orientalist Discourse in Sociology and Communalism
2. Orientalism and the Social Sciences
3. Deep Orientalism? Notes on Sanskrit and Power Beyond the Raj
4. The Burden of English
5. Orientalism and the Study of Indian Literatures
PT. II. THE GENEALOGY OF THE POSTCOLONIAL
6. The Fate of Hindustani: Colonial Knowledge and the Project of a National Language
7. British Orientalism in the Eighteenth Century: The Dialectics of Knowledge and Government
8. Orientalist Empiricism: Transformations of Colonial Knowledge
9. Colonial Histories and Native Informants: Biography of an Archive
10. Number in the Colonial Imagination
List of Contributors
Index

Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament

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      Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
      Published 1 January 1993
      ISBN-13 9780812214369
      978-0812214369
      ISBN-10 0812214366
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      Regional / International studies

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents

      Preface
      Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament
      PT. I. THE POSTCOLONIAL PREDICAMENT AND CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
      1. The Foreign Hand: Orientalist Discourse in Sociology and Communalism
      2. Orientalism and the Social Sciences
      3. Deep Orientalism? Notes on Sanskrit and Power Beyond the Raj
      4. The Burden of English
      5. Orientalism and the Study of Indian Literatures
      PT. II. THE GENEALOGY OF THE POSTCOLONIAL
      6. The Fate of Hindustani: Colonial Knowledge and the Project of a National Language
      7. British Orientalism in the Eighteenth Century: The Dialectics of Knowledge and Government
      8. Orientalist Empiricism: Transformations of Colonial Knowledge
      9. Colonial Histories and Native Informants: Biography of an Archive
      10. Number in the Colonial Imagination
      List of Contributors
      Index

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