Edward Said and the Cultural History of British Colonialism in India
Autor: | Moritz Deutschmann |
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EAN: | 9783640797516 |
eBook Format: | ePUB/PDF |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Produktart: | eBook |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 12.01.2011 |
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Schlagworte: | Bengal British Empire Colonialism Cultural History Foucault India Information Knowledge Orientalism Post-colonial studies Racism Said Subaltern Studies |
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Essay from the year 2009 in the subject History - Basics, European University Institute (Department of History, Florenz), language: English, abstract: This text discusses the role of culture in the history of European colonialism. It takes Said's notion of 'Orientalism' as a starting point. It then discusses two very different books that have tried to make Said's notion useful for the study of concrete colonial situations: Christopher Bayly's 'Empire and Information', and Nicholas Dirks' 'Castes of Mind'. Whereas Bayly's concept of an 'information order' tries to undermine ideas about a European hegemony of knowledge, Dirks stresses the far-reaching influence European concepts had even on post-colonial notions of caste in India.