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" Orientalism and race : "
Tony Ballantyne
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BL
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653989
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Ballantyne, Tony,1972-
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Orientalism and race : : Aryanism in the British Empire /\ Tony Ballantyne
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Basingstoke :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2006
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Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
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xi; 266 p.; 22 cm
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0230507034 (pbk.)
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: 9780230507036 (pbk.)
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| Notes
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Originally published: Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Introduction: Aryanism and the Webs of Empire -- 1. The Emergence of Aryanism: Company Orientalism, Colonial Governance and Imperial Ethnology -- Trade to dominion: the birth of Company Orientalism -- Language and colonial power -- Patronage and the institutional basis of colonial knowledge -- Sir William Jones, Sanskrit and human origins -- Language and cultural comparison -- Colebrook and the Vedic golden age -- The impact of Sanskritocentrism -- Indocentrism: the Scottish Enlightenment in 'Further India' -- Orientalism, the Irish Enlightenment and settler self-fashioning -- Prichardian ethnology and the Anglo-Saxon revival -- Max Muller and the Aryan theory -- Aryans, India and 1857 -- Aryanism as an ethnological tool -- Regional variation and the limits of racialization: Punjab -- 2. Indocentrism on the New Zealand Frontier: Geographies of Race, Empire and Nation -- Pacific exploration and the question of origins -- The Semitic Maori? -- Richard Taylor and the emergence of Indocentrism -- Indocentrism consolidated: Edward Shortland -- Colonial science and philology -- J. T. Thomson and the 'Barata' race -- Tregear and the Aryan Maori -- Conflict, consensus and synthesis: Indocentrism 1885-c.1930 -- The death of Indocentrism: racial origins and the rise of nationalism -- 3. Systematizing Religion: from Tahiti to the Tat Khalsa -- 'Religion' -- Presence and absence: Tahiti and New Zealand -- A discourse of negation: the search for Maori religion -- Missionary ethnography -- Affirmation: religion in India -- The structure of Brahmanical Hinduism: vaidik and laukik -- Evangelical critiques of Hinduism -- The 'jungle': Hinduism and ethnography -- Sikhism: Nanak and the Indian 'Reformation' -- Dissenting voices: Evangelical attacks on Sikhism -- Macauliffe: the dialogics of Orientalism -- Military recruitment and preserving Sikh identity -- 4. 'Hello Ganesha!': Indocentrism and the Interpretation of Maori Religion -- Material transformations and textualizing traditions -- Fixing 'tradition' -- Maui, evolution and comparative religion -- Colonial comparative mythology -- Hindu-centrism: Indian gods in the Pacific -- Religion and the crisis of imperial authority -- Maori phailic cults -- Tapu, rank and caste -- Religion and rationality: the Tohunga Suppression Act -- 5. Print, Literacy and the Recasting of Maori Identities -- Historiographical models -- Pre-colonial social structure and identity -- Explorers and missionaries: a fatal impact? -- The coming of print and Christianity -- Literacy and social change: newspapers -- Literacy: a social revolution? -- The Bible and recasting Maori identity: Maori sectarianism -- Christianity and unity: Kingitanga and its critics -- Israelites not Aryans: the discourse of origins -- 6. The Politics of Language, Nation and Race: Hindu: Identities in the Late Nineteenth Century -- Sources: 'Arya' and the Vedas -- Arya, religion and race -- Dayananda Sarasvati and the Arya Samaj -- Tilak and the rewriting of the history of civilization -- 'Arya', anti-colonialism and Hindu nationalism -- Conclusion: Arya and the definition of Hindu identity -- Conclusion: Knowledge, Empire, Globalization
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Imperialism
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Orientalism
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325.320941
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DA16.B25 2006
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DA16.B25 2006
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