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020 |a9781315099965|q(e-book : PDF)
020 |a9781351584661|q(e-book: Mobi)
020 |z9781138688858|q(hardback)
024 7 |a10.4324/9781315099965 |2doi
035 |a(OCoLC)993973324
041 |aeng
049 |aTürk Tarih Kurumu Kütüphanesi
050 4|aDS436|b.G36 2018
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100 1 |aGanguly, Swagato,|eauthor.
245 10|aIdolatry and the colonial idea of India :|bvisions of horror, allegories of enlightenment /|cSwagato Ganguly.
250 |aFirst edition.
264 1|aLondon :|bRoutledge,|c2018.
300 |a1 online resource (208 pages)
490 0 |aSouth Asian History and Culture
505 00|tchapter Introduction: idolatry from Plato to Indiana Jones -- |tchapter 1 William Jones and James Mill: the duplicity of the colonial image -- |tchapter 2 Idolatry and fetishism in the fin de siecle: the Orientalism of Friedrich Max Muller -- |tchapter 3 The aesthetic image and the idolatrous grotesque /|rJohn Ruskin, Alice Perrin and E.M. Forster -- |tchapter 4 Reforming idolatrous Hinduism: Rammohan Roy and Bankimchandra Chatterjee -- |tchapter 5 Conclusion: idolatry, ideology and the nation-state.
520 |a"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 Mueller, 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 also anyone interested in colonial studies and histories of the Enlightenment."--Provided by publisher.
650 0|aIdolatry|zIndia.
651 0|aIndia|xHistory|y18th century.
651 0|aIndia|xHistory|y19th century.
651 0|aIndia|xHistory|y20th century.
776 08|iPrint version: |z9781138688858
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901 |aTaylor & Francis