Orientalism
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Right Hand Path Orientalism vs Left Hand Path Orientalism
Replying to a post on Nicholas Dirks’s Castes of Mind, the author argues readers take from it a tendency to blame British colonialism for caste, which he calls ‘Right Hand…
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Indian Studies; Reversing the Metropolitan Gaze
The author links Samir Chopra’s long essay criticising the Rajiv Malhotra and Balagangadhara school’s project of reversing the Western gaze on India, quoting Satadru Sen’s point that colonial power underwrote…
