Querying the Medieval - Texts and the History of Practices in South Asia (Hardcover)

Indologist Ronald Inden has in the past raised questions about the images of a "traditional" or "medieval" India deployed by colonial scholars and rulers -- "Orientalists" -- and has also argued that a history of "early medieval" India very different from both the colonial and nationalist accounts could be written. This volume is designed as an important first step towards that goal. The authors look closely at three genres of texts that have been crucial to the representations of precolonial India. All three essays challenge not only colonialist scholarship but the attempts by religious nationalists to identify Hinduism as the essence of national identity in Idia and Buddhism as the essence of nationality in Sri Lanka.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2002
First published:	June 2000
Authors:	Ronald Inden (Professor of South Asian History) • Jonathan Walters (Assistant Professor of Religion) • Daud Ali (Lecturer in Ancient and Medieval Indian History)
Dimensions:	241 x 163 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	236
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-512430-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500 Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500
LSN:	0-19-512430-8
Barcode:	9780195124309

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