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Aryans and British India /

"Aryan," a word that today evokes images of racial hatred and atrocity, was first used by Europeans to suggest bonds of kinship, as Thomas Trautmann shows in his far-reaching history of British Orientalism and the ethnology of India. When the historical relationship uniting Sanskrit with t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Trautmann, Thomas R. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1997]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The mosaic ethnology of Asiatick Jones
  • British Indomania
  • British Indophobia
  • Philology and ethnology
  • Race science versus Sanskrit
  • The racial theory of Indian civilization.