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Title Orientalism and the postcolonial predicament : perspectives on South Asia / edited by Carol A. Breckenridge and Peter van der Veer.

Publication Info. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1993]
©1993

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  954 O69O    Check Shelf
Description viii, 355 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series South Asia seminar series
New cultural studies
South Asia seminar series.
New cultural studies.
Contents Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament / C.A. Breckenridge and P.van der Veer -- The foreign hand: Orientalist discourse in Sociology / P.van der Veer -- Orientalism and the Social Sciences / J. Lele -- Deep Orientalism? Notes on Sanskrit and Power beyond the Raj / S. Pollock -- The burden of English / G.C. Spivak -- Orientalism and the study of Indian Literatures / V. Dharwadker -- The fate of Hindustani: Colonial knowledge and the project of a National Language / D. Lelyveld -- British Orientalism in the Eighteenth Century: The Dialectics of Knowledge and Government / R. Rocher -- Orientalist Empiricism: Transformations of Colonial Knowledge / D. Ludden -- Colonial Histories and Native Informants: Biography of an Archive / N.B. Dirks -- Number in the Colonial Imagination / A. Appadurai -- Index.
Bibliography Papers presented at the 44th Annual South Asia Seminar held at the University of Pennsylvania, 1988/1989.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject South Asia -- Study and teaching -- Congresses.
South Asia -- Foreign public opinion, Occidental -- Congresses.
Oriëntalisme.
Koloniaal bestuur.
Postkolonialisme.
Added Author Breckenridge, Carol Appadurai, 1942-2009.
Veer, Peter van der.
South Asia Seminar (44th : 1988 : University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN 0812231686 (acid-free paper)
0812214366 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
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