Author: William RobertsonPublisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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The History of Scotland, and an Historical Disquisition Concerning Ancient India
Author: William RobertsonPublisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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An Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients Had of India
Author: William RobertsonPublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 630
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The History of Scotland, and an Historical Disquisition Concerning Ancient India
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ISBN: 9780461374049
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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The History of Scotland; And, an Historical Disquisition Concerning Ancient India
Author: William RobertsonPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781017646801
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Disquisition concerning ancient India
Author: William RobertsonThe History of America
Author: William RobertsonPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Author: William RobertsonPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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An Essay on the History of Civil Society
Author: Adam FergusonPublisher:
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Category : Civil society
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Category : Comparative law
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Aryans and British India
Author: Thomas R. TrautmannPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520917928
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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"Aryan," a word that today evokes images of racial hatred and atrocity, was first used by Europeans to suggest bonds of kinship, as Thomas Trautmann shows in his far-reaching history of British Orientalism and the ethnology of India. When the historical relationship uniting Sanskrit with the languages of Europe was discovered, it seemed clear that Indians and Britons belonged to the same family. Thus the Indo-European or Aryan idea, based on the principle of linguistic kinship, dominated British ethnological inquiry. In the nineteenth century, however, an emergent biological "race science" attacked the authority of the Orientalists. The spectacle of a dark-skinned people who were evidently civilized challenged Victorian ideas, and race science responded to the enigma of India by redefining the Aryan concept in narrowly "white" racial terms. By the end of the nineteenth century, race science and Orientalism reached a deep and lasting consensus in regard to India, which Trautmann calls "the racial theory of Indian civilization," and which he undermines with his powerful analysis of colonial ethnology in India. His work of reassessing British Orientalism and the Aryan idea will be of great interest to historians, anthropologists, and cultural critics.