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9789352641024 60b9fe8e1a8e0e41d158df1d The Ruler's Gaze: A Study of British Rule over India from a SaidianPerspective https://www.midlandbookshop.com/s/607fe93d7eafcac1f2c73ea4/60ba4c522b90ad75c792f51b/9789352641024.jpg Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) is a seminal work in the field of postcolonial culture studies. It critiqued Western scholarship about the Eastern world for its patronizing attitude and tendency to view it as exotic backward and uncivilized. Arvind Sharma longstanding professor of comparative religion at McGill University in Montreal Canada now takes up the Palestinian academic's groundbreaking ideas - originally put forth predominantly in a Middle Eastern context - and tests them against Indian material. He explores in an Indian context Said's contention that the relationship between knowledge and power is central to the way the West depicts the non-West.

Scholarly and accessibleThe Ruler's Gaze throws fresh light on Indian colonial history through a Saidian lens. 9789352641024
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  • ISBN: 9789352641024
  • Author: Sharma Arvind
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Pages: 436
  • Format: Hardback
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Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) is a seminal work in the field of postcolonial culture studies. It critiqued Western scholarship about the Eastern world for its patronizing attitude and tendency to view it as exotic backward and uncivilized. Arvind Sharma longstanding professor of comparative religion at McGill University in Montreal Canada now takes up the Palestinian academic's groundbreaking ideas - originally put forth predominantly in a Middle Eastern context - and tests them against Indian material. He explores in an Indian context Said's contention that the relationship between knowledge and power is central to the way the West depicts the non-West.

Scholarly and accessibleThe Ruler's Gaze throws fresh light on Indian colonial history through a Saidian lens.

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