The Ruler's Gaze: A Study of British Rule over India (Hardcover) - Arvind Sharma
Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) is a seminal work in the field of postcolonial cultural studies. It critiqued Western scholarship about the Eastern world for its patronizing attitude and tendency to view it as exotic, backward, and uncivilized. Arvind Sharma, a longstanding professor of comparative religion at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, now takes up the Palestinian academic's groundbreaking ideas - originally put forth predominantly in a Middle Eastern context - and tests them against Indian material. He explores in an Indian context Said's contention that the relationship between knowledge and power is central to the way the West depicts the non-West. Scholarly and accessible, The Ruler's Gaze throws fresh light on Indian colonial history through a Saidian lens.
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About the Author
Formerly of the IAS, Arvind Sharma is the Birks Professor of Comparative Religion in the School of Religious Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He has also taught in Australia and the USA, and has published extensively in the fields of comparative religion and Indology. His recent books include The Ruler's Gaze: A Study of British Rule over India from a Saidian Perspective.
Product details
- ASIN : 9352641027
- Publisher : HarperCollins; 1st edition (27 May 2017)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 436 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9789352641024
- ISBN-13 : 978-9352641024
- Item Weight : 483 g
- Dimensions : 14.22 x 3.05 x 21.59 cm
- Country of Origin : India
- Condition : New
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