Querying the Medieval

副标题: Texts and the History of Practices in South Asia

ISBN: 9780195124309

出版社: Oxford University Press, USA

出版年: 2000-6-8

页数: 248

定价: USD 95.00

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

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.