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Arvind Sharma

RULER'S GAZE : a study of British rule over India from a Saidian perspective / Arvind Sharma. - 1 - Noida Harper Collins 2017/01/01 - 427

Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) is a seminal work in the field of postcolonial culture studies. It critiqued Western scholarship about the Eastern world for its patronizing attitude and tendency to view it as exotic, backward and uncivilized. Arvind Sharma, longstanding professor of comparative religion at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, now takes up the Palestinian academic's groundbreaking ideas - originally put forth predominantly in a Middle Eastern context - and tests them against Indian material. He explores in an Indian context Said's contention that the relationship between knowledge and power is central to the way the West depicts the non-West. Scholarly and accessible, The Ruler's Gaze throws fresh light on Indian colonial history through a Saidian lens.

ISBN: 9789352641024

Source: Purchased Current Books,Convent jn,Ernakulam

LCCN: 2017325622

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Indian History
India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947.
Orientalism
Said, Edward W.
Study

Dewey Class. No.: 954.03 / ARV/RU