Aryans and British India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aryans and British India write by Thomas R. Trautmann. This book was released on 2023-07-28. Aryans and British India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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.
The Aryans
The Aryans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Aryans write by K. C. Aryan. This book was released on 1998. The Aryans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Aryan question has remained enmeshed and enveloped in layers and layers of controversial views.
The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia
The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia write by George Erdosy. This book was released on 2012-10-25. The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Aryans, Jews, Brahmins
Aryans, Jews, Brahmins - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aryans, Jews, Brahmins write by Dorothy M. Figueira. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Aryans, Jews, Brahmins available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Aryans, Jews, Brahmins, Dorothy M. Figueira provides a fascinating account of the construction of the Aryan myth and its uses in both India and Europe from the Enlightenment to the twentieth century. The myth concerns a race that inhabits a utopian past and gives rise first to Brahmin Indian culture and then to European culture. In India, notions of the Aryan were used to develop a national identity under colonialism, one that allowed Indian elites to identify with their British rulers. It also allowed non-elites to set up a counter identity critical of their position in the caste system. In Europe, the Aryan myth provided certain thinkers with an origin story that could compete with the Biblical one and could be used to diminish the importance of the West's Jewish heritage. European racial hygienists made much of the myth of a pure Aryan race, and the Nazis later looked at India as a cautionary tale of what could happen if a nation did not remain "pure." As Figueira demonstrates, the history of the Aryan myth is also a history of reading, interpretation, and imaginative construction. Initially, the ideology of the Aryan was imposed upon absent or false texts. Over time, it involved strategies of constructing, evoking, or distorting the canon. Each construction of racial identity was concerned with key issues of reading: canonicity, textual accessibility, interpretive strategies of reading, and ideal readers. The book's cross-cultural investigation demonstrates how identities can be and are created from texts and illuminates an engrossing, often disturbing history that arose from these creations.
Aryans in the Rigveda
Aryans in the Rigveda - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aryans in the Rigveda write by Franciscus Bernardus Jacobus Kuiper. This book was released on 1991. Aryans in the Rigveda available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
