Negotiating the Modern: Orientalism and Indianness in the Anglophone World (Literary Criticism & Cultural Theory) (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)

by Amit Ray (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $151.13

  Tracing the fortunes of Orientalist scholars from the inception of British rule, this study charts the work of key Indologists in the colonial era. It charts a cultural history of Indianness in the Anglophone world, locating moments where India and Indianness are offered up as solutions to modern moral, ethical and political questions in the West.