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Idolatry and the Colonial Idea of India: Visions of Horror, Allegories of Enlightenment

Idolatry and the Colonial Idea of India: Visions of Horror, Allegories of Enlightenment - Hardcover

by Swagato Ganguly
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Availability:In StockContributor:Swagato GangulySeries:South Asian History and CultureTheme:Cultural Region/Asian, Cultural Region/Indian, Ethnic Orientation/AsianPublish date:8/24/2017Pages:208
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Routledge IndiaISBN-13:9781138688858ISBN-10:1138688851UPC:9781138688858Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Asia, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Regional StudiesBook Topic:South, Asian American & Pacific Islander StudiesSize:8.90 x 5.60 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.272Product ID:SCHCAN9852

This book explores literary and scholarly representations of India from the 18th to the early 20th centuries in South Asia and the West with idolatry as a point of entry. It reveals how religion and paganism, history and literature, oriental thought and western metaphysics, and social reform and education were unfolded and debated by them.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Routledge IndiaISBN-13:9781138688858ISBN-10:1138688851UPC:9781138688858Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Asia, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Regional StudiesBook Topic:South, Asian American & Pacific Islander StudiesSize:8.90 x 5.60 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.272Product ID:SCHCAN9852

Swagato Ganguly is currently Editorial Page Editor, The Times of India and is based in New Delhi, India. He was educated in Kolkata, Delhi and Philadelphia. He has been a fellow of the American Institute of Indian Studies, Chicago, and earned a doctoral degree in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania, after which he took up a career in journalism.


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