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Orientalism and race : Aryanism in the British Empire

Orientalism and Race is a trailblazing transnational study of the relationship between racism and imperialism, tracing the emergence and dissemination of Aryanism within the British Empire. The global reach of the Aryan idea reflected the complex networks that enabled the global reach of British Imperialism
eBook, English, 2002
Palgrave, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, 2002
1 online resource (xi, 266 pages) : 1 map
9780230508071, 9780333963609, 0230508073, 0333963601
312759082
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Aryanism and the Webs of Empire
The Emergence of Aryanism: Company Orientalism, Colonial Governance and Imperial Ethnology
Indocentrism on the New Zealand Frontier: Geographies of Race, Empire and Nation
Systematizing Religion: From Tahiti to the Tat Khalsa
'Hello Ganesha!': Indocentrism and the Interpretation of Maori Religion
Print, Literacy, and the Recasting of Maori Identities
The Politics of Language, Nation, and Race: Hindu Identities in the Late Nineteenth Century
Conclusion: Knowledge, Empire, Globalization
Bibliography
Index