Idolatry and the colonial idea of India: visions of horror, allegories of enlightenment
By: Ganguly, Swagato
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BookSeries: South Asian history and culture. Publisher: London Routledge 2018Description: 208 p.ISBN: 9781138106161.Subject(s): British occupation of India (1765-1947) | Idolatry in literature - India | Idolatry - India | India - History - 18th century | India - History - 19th century | India - History - 20th centuryDDC classification: 954 Summary: 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 Müller, 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 well as anyone interested in colonial studies and histories of the Enlightenment.
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Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Idolatry from Plato to Indiana Jones
1.William Jones and James Mill: The Duplicity of the Colonial Image
2. Idolatry and Fetishism in the Fin-de-siècle: the Orientalism of Friedrich Max Mueller
3. The Aesthetic Image and the Idolatrous Grotesque: John Ruskin, Alice Perrin and E.M. Forster
4. Reforming Idolatrous Hinduism: Rammohan Roy and Bankimchandra Chatterjee
5. Conclusion: Idolatry, Ideology and the Nation-State.
References
Index
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 Müller, 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 well as anyone interested in colonial studies and histories of the Enlightenment.
(https://www.routledge.com/Idolatry-and-the-Colonial-Idea-of-India-Visions-of-Horror-Allegories/Ganguly/p/book/9781138688858)
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