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The Limits of Orientalism: Seventeenth-Century Representations of India

The Limits of Orientalism: Seventeenth-Century Representations of India

Sapra, Rahul

Paperback

Literary CriticismIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 1644531429
ISBN13: 9781644531426
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: Mar 14 2011
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The Limits of Orientalism: Seventeenth-Century Representations of India challenges the recent postcolonial readings of European, predominantly English, representations of India in the seventeenth century. Following Edward Said's discourse of Orientalism, most postcolonial analyses of the seventeenth-century representations of India argue that the natives are represented as barbaric or exotic others, imagining these representations as products of colonial ideology. Such approaches tend to offer a homogeneous idea of the native and usually equate it with the term Indian. Sapra, however, argues that instead of representing all natives as barbaric others, the English drew parallels, especially between themselves and the Mughal aristocracy, associating with them as partners in trade and potential allies in war. While the Muslims are from the outset largely portrayed as highly civilized and cultured, early European writers tended to be more conflicted with Hindus, their first highly negative views undergoing a transformation that brings into question any straightforward Orientalist reading of the texts and anticipates the complexity of later representations of the indigenous peoples of the sub-continent.

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