Imagining India

By:

Inden, Ronald

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge Blackwell 1990Description: v, 298p., pbkISBN:

9781557863393

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

954.0072 IND

Summary: """An important book, a major work, that must be read and absorbed by those involved in scholarship, or any critical enterprise."" -The Independent How does the Western world represent India? To what extent is knowledge of the people and institutions of the Indian sub-continent based on the West's own desires for world hegemony, and fantasies about its rationality? In this controversial and widely-praised book, Inden argues that the West's major depictions of India as the civilization of caste, villages, spiritualism, and divine kings-and as a land dominated by imagination rather than reason-have had the effect of depriving Indians of their capacity to rule their world, which has consequently been appropriated by those in the West who wish to dominate it."

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"""An important book, a major work, that must be read and absorbed by those involved in scholarship, or any critical enterprise."" -The Independent

How does the Western world represent India? To what extent is knowledge of the people and institutions of the Indian sub-continent based on the West's own desires for world hegemony, and fantasies about its rationality? In this controversial and widely-praised book, Inden argues that the West's major depictions of India as the civilization of caste, villages, spiritualism, and divine kings-and as a land dominated by imagination rather than reason-have had the effect of depriving Indians of their capacity to rule their world, which has consequently been appropriated by those in the West who wish to dominate it."

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