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Max Müller and the theosophists or the other half of Victorian orientalism

Denis Vidal

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In this paper, I argue that the dominant forms of orientalism prevalent in India from the second half of the nineteenth century onwards are not adequately explained by the criticismes of Edward Said or Ronald Inden. It must not be forgiven that from the time of Macaulay onwards, orientalism, far from epitomising colonial ideology, was in fact marginalised by the British administration. Moreover, orientalism, in its less orthodox forms, did in fact play an important role in the formation of anti-imperialist discourse in India. This means that in order to evaluate the full significance of what oriental ism represented in late colonial India, one needs first to consider the relationship between is different composite elements.

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Denis Vidal. Max Müller and the theosophists or the other half of Victorian orientalism. Orientalism and anthropology : from Max Müller to Louis Dumont, IFP, pp.17-29, 2001. ⟨hal-01482676⟩
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