This book explicates long-standing literary celebrations of 'India'
and 'Indian-ness' by charting a cultural history of Indianness in
the Anglophone world, locating moments (in intellectual, religious
and cultural history) where India and Indianness are offered up as
solutions to modern moral, ethical and political questions in the
'West.' Beginning in the early 1800s, South Asians actively seek to
occupy and modify spaces created by the scholarly discourses of
Orientalism: the study of the East ('Orient') via Western
('European') epistemological frameworks. Tracing the varying
fortunes of Orientalist scholars from the inception of British
rule, this study charts the work of key Indologists in the colonial
era. The rhetorical constructions of East and West deployed by both
colonizer and colonized, as well as attempts to synthesize or
transcend such constructions, became crucial to conceptions of the
'modern.' Eventually, Indian desire for political sovereignty
together with the deeply racialized formations of imperialism
produced a shift in the dialogic relationship between South Asia
and Europe that had been initiated and sustained by orientalists.
This impetus pushed scholarly discourse about India in Europe,
North America and elsewhere, out of what had been a direct role in
politics and theology and into high 'Literary' culture.
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