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Imagining India - 5th Edition by Ronald Inden (Paperback)

Imagining India - 5th Edition by  Ronald Inden (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This edition contains a new introduction.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>An important book, a major work, that must be read and absorbed by those involved in scholarship, or any critical enterprise. --The Independent</p><p></p><p>How does the Western world represent India? To what extent is knowledge of the people and institutions of the Indian sub-continent based on the West's own desires for world hegemony, and fantasies about its rationality? In this controversial and widely-praised book, Inden argues that the West's major depictions of India as the civilization of caste, villages, spiritualism, and divine kings--and as a land dominated by imagination rather than reason--have had the effect of depriving Indians of their capacity to rule their world, which has consequently been appropriated by those in the West who wish to dominate it.</p><p></p><p>First published in 1990, Imagining India is required reading in many university courses. This edition contains a new introduction.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Ronald Inden is Professor of South Asian History at the University of Chicago.</p>

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