Claiming India: French Scholars and the Preoccupation with India in the Nineteenth Century

by Jyoti Mohan

Most of us grew up with the knowledge that India had been a British colony - the jewel in the crown of the Raj. Even those with slightly deeper knowledge who knew that France had once been a contender for the Indian empire consider it a romantic interlude between the Mughals and their self-proclaimed Anglo-successors. Yet our ideas about India, fundamentally wrought from the colonial recasting of knowledge in strictly 'Western' categories - religion,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9352804651
• ISBN13: 9789352804658
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.6"