Orientalism and Race: Aryanism in the British EmpireThis study traces the emergence and dissemination of Aryanism within the British Empire. The idea of an Aryan race became an important feature of imperial culture in the nineteenth century, feeding into debates in Britain, Ireland, India, and the Pacific. The global reach of the Aryan idea reflected the complex networks that enabled the global reach of British Imperialism. Tony Ballantyne charts the shifting meanings of Aryanism within these 'webs' of Empire. |
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... Europe', at least a Europe insulated from the effects of imperialism, in shaping conceptions of race, religion and language. I locate shifting understandings of these categories within what we might term the disruptive power of empire ...
... Europe', at least a Europe insulated from the effects of imperialism, in shaping conceptions of race, religion and language. I locate shifting understandings of these categories within what we might term the disruptive power of empire ...
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... European nationalisms, was not European; rather it was deeply embedded in Vedic tradition. The Rig Veda, composed around ... Europe and Indian history. In effect, Jones's ten 'Anniversary Discourses', delivered to the Asiatic Society of ...
... European nationalisms, was not European; rather it was deeply embedded in Vedic tradition. The Rig Veda, composed around ... Europe and Indian history. In effect, Jones's ten 'Anniversary Discourses', delivered to the Asiatic Society of ...
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... Europe the Aryan concept was much more than a heuristic device: Aryanism was woven into the intellectual fabric of various European nationalist traditions. As Chapter 1 demonstrates, from the early nineteenth century the concept was ...
... Europe the Aryan concept was much more than a heuristic device: Aryanism was woven into the intellectual fabric of various European nationalist traditions. As Chapter 1 demonstrates, from the early nineteenth century the concept was ...
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... Europe to formulate a genealogy of European racial thought, constructing a narrative that led inexorably to the Holocaust. Poliakov's work, however, underemphasized the contested position of the idea in nineteenth-century European ...
... Europe to formulate a genealogy of European racial thought, constructing a narrative that led inexorably to the Holocaust. Poliakov's work, however, underemphasized the contested position of the idea in nineteenth-century European ...
Contents
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Geographies of Race Empire and Nation | 56 |
from Tahiti to the Tat Khalsa | 83 |
Indocentrism and the Interpretation of Maori Religion | 118 |
5 Print Literacy and the Recasting of Maori Identities | 146 |
Hindu Identities in the Late Nineteenth Century | 169 |
Knowledge Empire Globalization | 188 |
Notes | 197 |
Bibliography | 235 |
Index | 256 |
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