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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Shared Myths
The Aryan Canon
Methodology and Plan
Part I. The Authority of an Absent Text
1. The Enlightenment and Orientalist Discourse on the Aryan
The Enlightenment Background
Voltaire and the Search for Authority
Locus of Poetic Inspiration or Site of Cultural Decay?
Conclusion
2. The Romantic Aryans
Romantic Myth Theory
Friedrich Schlegel and the Foundations of Romantic Linguistics
Romantic Mythographers and the Upnekhata
Romantic Indology: The Case of Max Müller
Conclusion
3. Nietzsche's Aryan Übermensch
Introduction
Reading Nietzsche Reading India
Manu as a "Semitized" Aryan Sourcebook
The Aryan as Übermensch
Christianity, an Anti-Aryan Outcaste Religion
The Jew and the Aryan
Conclusion
4. Loose Can[n]ons
Racial Theory: An Overview
Gobineau and the Aryan Aristocrat
Houston Stewart Chamberlain: Aryan Publicist
Alfred Rosenberg and the Nordic Aryan
Conclusion
Part II. Who Speaks for the Subaltern?
5. Rammohan Roy
Reading Reform
The Complexity of the Colonial Subject
Scriptural Authority and the Hermeneutics of Sati
Misreading Monotheism: Idolatry and Brahmin Perfidy
Rammohan Roy's Syncretism and Its Challenge to Postcolonial Theory
6. Text-based Identity: Dayanand Saraswatı's Reconstruction of the Aryan Self
Introduction
Dayanand's Canon and Hermeneutical Strategies for Reading the Aryan World
Aryan Masculinity and the Teleology of Decay
Conclusion
7. Aryan Identity and National Self-Esteem
Introduction
Justice Ranade and Lokamanya Tilak
Swami Vivekananda
Conclusion
8. The Anti-Myth
Introduction
The Aryan and Its Other
Mahatma Phule
Dr. Ambedkar
Conclusion
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Sujets
Informations
Publié par | State University of New York Press |
Date de parution | 01 février 2012 |
Nombre de lectures | 0 |
EAN13 | 9780791487839 |
Langue | English |
Poids de l'ouvrage | 1 Mo |
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