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Indology, Indomania, and Orientalism
Douglas T. McGetchin
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Description for Indology, Indomania, and Orientalism
Num Pages: 291 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 241 x 23. Weight in Grams: 552.
Investigating the growth of Indology (the study of East Indian texts, literature, and culture) and the diffusion of this knowledge about ancient India within nineteenth-century Germany, this work contextualizes approaches to contact by historically grounding them in a contemporary history of German culture, education, and science. It answers the historical anomaly of why Germany had more nineteenth-century experts in the academic discipline of Indology than all other European powers combined. German interest in ancient India developed because it was useful for widely varying German projects, including Romanticism and nationalism. German Indologists made successful arguments about the cultural and intellectual relevance ... Read more
Investigating the growth of Indology (the study of East Indian texts, literature, and culture) and the diffusion of this knowledge about ancient India within nineteenth-century Germany, this work contextualizes approaches to contact by historically grounding them in a contemporary history of German culture, education, and science. It answers the historical anomaly of why Germany had more nineteenth-century experts in the academic discipline of Indology than all other European powers combined. German interest in ancient India developed because it was useful for widely varying German projects, including Romanticism and nationalism. German Indologists made successful arguments about the cultural and intellectual relevance ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
291
Condition
New
Number of Pages
291
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611474138
SKU
V9781611474138
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About Douglas T. McGetchin
Douglas T. McGetchin is Assistant Professor of History at Florida Atlantic University.
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