In his extraordinarily influential book "Orientalism," Edward
Said argued that Western knowledge about the Orient in the
Post-Enlightenment period has been "a systematic discourse by which
Europe was able to manage--even produce--the Orient politically,
sociologically, militarily, ideologically, scientifically, and
imaginatively." According to Said, European and American views of
the Orient created a reality in which the Oriental was forced to
live. Although Said's work deals primarily with discourse about the
Arab world, much of his argument has been applied to other regions
of "the Orient."Drawing on Said's book, Carol A. Breckenridge,
Peter van der Veer, and the contributors to this book explore the
ways colonial administrators constructed knowledge about the
society and culture of India and the processes through which that
knowledge has shaped past and present Indian reality.One common
theme that links the essays in "Orientalism and the Postcolonial
Predicament" is the proposition that Orientalist discourse is not
just restricted to the colonial past but continues even today. The
contributors argue that it is still extremely difficult for both
Indians and outsiders to think about India in anything but strictly
Orientalist terms. They propose that students of society and
history rethink their methodologies and the relation between
theories, methods, and the historical conditions that produced
them."Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament" provides new
and important insights into the cultural embeddedness of power in
the colonial and postcolonial world.
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