"Peter van der Veer's bracing, audacious book is sure to stir up
much-needed debate. Challenging the canonical narratives that have
governed analysis of colonialism, culture, and religion, he
advances a bold thesis about their complicity across boundaries and
nationalist categories. Deeply learned and elegantly presented,
"Imperial Encounters" is a gripping work of the scholarly
imagination."--Edward W. Said, Columbia University
"This is a splendid book. Peter van der Veer has drawn on a wide
range of fascinating readings to elaborate the post-colonial thesis
that the modern histories of Britain and India have been mutually
constitutive. I believe he is absolutely right in insisting on the
fact--and demonstrating it so ably--that modern ideas like nation,
religion, and race must be understood, if they are to be understood
fully, through an interactional approach. Anyone interested in
recent thinking about the joint history of colonialism and
modernity should not miss this work."--Talal Asad, City University
of New York
"Peter van der Veer has made extremely important contributions
to the study of Indian history and society. In recent years, he has
taken a particularly important approach, one the puts him at the
cutting edge of historical work, in placing the European metropole
and the Asian colonized into the same historical space. In this
volume, he explores one aspect of the subject in depth and provides
a coherent single-voice narrative. The scholarship is of the
highest level, and van der Veer writes very well, often with a
clever nuance or twist."--Barbara Metcalf, University of
California, Davis
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