num_pages: 282
description: Orientalist research has most often been characterised as an integral element of the European will-to-power over the Asian world. This study seeks to nuance this view, and asserts that British Orientalism in India was also an inherently complex and unstable enterprise, predicated upon the cultural authority of the Sanskrit pandits.
language: English
title: Orientalism, Empire and National Culture: India 1770-1880
titlecomplete: Orientalism, Empire and National Culture: India 1770-1880 (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series)
ratings_count: 5
series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan