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Sep 1, 2021
The Ruler's Gaze
A Study of British Rule Over India from a Saidian Perspective
Summary
Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) is a seminal work in the field of postcolonial culture studies. It critiqued Western scholarship about the Eastern world for its patronizing attitude and tendency to view it as exotic, backward and uncivilized. Arvind Sharma, longstanding professor of comparative religion at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, now takes up the Palestinian academic's groundbreaking ideas - originally put forth predominantly in a Middle Eastern context - and tests them against Indian material. He explores in an Indian context Said's contention that the relationship between knowledge and power is central to the way the West depicts the non-West.Scholarly and accessible, The Ruler's Gaze: A Study of British Rule Over India from a Saidian Perspective (HarperCollins, 2018) throws fresh light on Indian colonial history through a Saidian lens.
Dr. Pankaj Jain is a Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at FLAME University, where he is heading the Indic Studies Initiative in the FLAME School of Liberal Education.
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Dr. Pankaj Jain is the Head of the Dept of Humanities & Languages and Chair of The India Centre at FLAME University.
