Description: This book explores literary and scholarly representations of India from the 18th to the early 20th centuries in South Asia and the West with idolatry as a point of entry. It charts the intellectual horizon within which the colonial idea of India was framed, tracing sources and genealogies which inform even contemporary descriptions of the subcontinent. Using idolatry as a concept-metaphor, the book traverses an ambitious path through the works of William Jones, James Mill, Friedrich Max Müller, John Ruskin, Alice Perrin, E. M. Forster, Rammohan Roy and Bankimchandra Chatterjee. It reveals how religion and paganism, history and literature, Oriental thought and Western metaphysics, and social reform and education were unfolded and debated by them. The author underlines how idolatry, irrationality and social disorder came to be linked by discourses informed by Enlightenment, missionary rhetoric and colonial reason. This book will appeal to scholars and researchers in history, anthropology, literature, culture studies, philosophy, religion, sociology and South Asian studies as well as anyone interested in colonial studies and histories of the Enlightenment.
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EAN: 9780367277932
UPC: 9780367277932
ISBN: 9780367277932
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Book Title: Idolatry and the Colonial Idea of India: Visions o
Item Length: 21.6 cm
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Idolatry and the Colonial Idea of India: Visions of Horror, Allegories of Enlightenment
Publisher: Taylor & Francis LTD
Publication Year: 2019
Subject: Anthropology, History
Item Height: 216 mm
Item Weight: 399 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Swagato Ganguly
Item Width: 138 mm
Format: Paperback
