Imagining India

By:

Inden, Ronald

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Bloomington Indiana University Press 2000Description: xiii, 298 pISBN:

9780253213587 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

303.48254073 IND

Summary: 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.--Back cover.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Plaksha University Library	Social Science	303.48254073 IND (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		003300

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.--Back cover.

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