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EBOOK di  Arvind Sharma
edito da  D.K. PRINTWORLD

Decolonizing Indian Studies. E-book. Formato EPUB - 9788124611951


di  Arvind Sharma
edito da  D.K. PRINTWORLD , 2023
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The present Indian academic self-understanding of its history and culture is largely Western in origin. This Western intellectual enterprise, however, went hand in hand with a Western political enterprise, i.e. the colonization of India. This raises the question: To what extent, if any, did the two developments influence each other? It also raises another question: To what extent did West&rsquo;s cultural presuppositions influence its understanding of Indian civilization?<br />The central epistemological issue which these questions raise is the following: What significance does the fact that the self-understanding of a culture is mediated by that of another culture, over which it was culturally and politically dominant, possess for the votaries of the culture whose self-understanding has thus been mediated in this fashion?<br />This question is not merely of historical but also of contemporary interest, for in an increasingly globalizing world, in which power is unevenly distributed at various levels, the self-understanding of all cultures is likely to be influenced by how they are being presented by other cultures. Furthermore, in such a world, shifting political alliances may generate new intellectual configurations, whose legitimacy may require constant examination. The essays in this book address these and similar issues.<br />&nbsp;
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9788124611951
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Decolonizing Indian Studies. E-book. Formato EPUB
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2023
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