Edward Said and the Cultural History of British Colonialism in India

Edward Said and the Cultural History of British Colonialism in India

by Moritz Deutschmann

32 pages· 2011· ISBN 9783640797707
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Essay from the year 2009 in the subject History - Basics, grade: -, European University Institute (Department of History, Florenz), language: English, comment: This text discusses the role of culture in the history of European colonialism. It takes Said's notion of "Orientalism" as a starting point. It then discusses two very different books that have tried to make Said's notion useful for the study of concrete colonial situations: Christopher Bayly's "Empire and Information," and Nicholas Dirks' "Castes of Mind." Whereas Bayly's concept of an "information order" tries to undermine ideas about a European hegemony of knowledge, Dirks stresses the far-reaching influence European concepts had even on post-colonial notions of caste in India., abstract: This text discusses the role of culture in the history of European colonialism. It takes Said's notion of "Orientalism" as a starting point. It then discusses two very different books that have tried to make Said's notion useful for the study of concrete colonial situations: Christopher Bayly's "Empire and Information," and Nicholas Dirks' "Castes of Mind." Whereas Bayly's concept of an "information order" tries to undermine ideas about a European hegemony of knowledge, Dirks stresses the far-reaching influence European concepts had even on post-colonial notions of caste in India.

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