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Querying the medieval : texts and the history of practices in South Asia /
Indologist Ronald Inden has in the past raised questions about the images of a "traditional" or "medieval" India deployed by colonial scholars and rulers - "Orientalists"--And has also argued that a history of "early medieval" India very different from both th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2000.
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| Colección: | OUP E-Books.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Indologist Ronald Inden has in the past raised questions about the images of a "traditional" or "medieval" India deployed by colonial scholars and rulers - "Orientalists"--And has also argued that a history of "early medieval" India very different from both the colonial and nationalist accounts could be written. This volume is designed as an important first step towards that goal. The authors look closely at three genres of texts that have been crucial to the representations of precolonial India. All three essays challenge not only colonialist scholarship but the attempts by religious nationalists to identify Hinduism as the essence of national identity in Idia and Buddhism as the essence of nationality in Sri Lanka |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (235 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423760182 9781423760184 128047159X 9781280471599 9780195124309 0195124308 9786610471591 6610471592 9781602563179 1602563179 0195352432 9780195352436 |