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【インドを求めて:19世紀のフランス人学者たちと彼らのインドへの関心】
Claiming India:French Scholars and the Preoccupation with India in the Nineteenth Century '18
Mohan, Jyoti
著
発行年月 |
2018年01月 |
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出版国 |
イギリス |
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言語 |
英語 |
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媒体 |
冊子 |
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装丁 |
hardcover |
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ページ数/巻数 |
432 p. |
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ジャンル |
洋書/人文科学/歴史学 /その他アジア・オセアニア史 |
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ISBN |
9789352804658 |
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商品コード |
1025647439 |
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国件名 |
インド/
フランス
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本の性格 |
学術書 |
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新刊案内掲載月 |
2018年01月 |
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商品URL
| https://kw.maruzen.co.jp/ims/itemDetail.html?itmCd=1025647439 |
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著者紹介
Mohan, Jyoti(著者):Lecturer of History, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland.
内容
Most of us grew up with the knowledge that India had been a British colony-the jewel in the crown of the Raj. Even those with slightly deeper knowledge who knew that France had once been a contender for the Indian empire consider it a romantic interlude between the Mughals and their self-proclaimed Anglo-successors. Yet our ideas about India, fundamentally wrought from the colonial recasting of knowledge in strictly `Western' categories-religion, history, politics, economy, mythology, and even the modern self-conception of race (Aryan v/s Dravidian)-were drawn from the studies of French Indologists. So France, a failed temporal conqueror, had actually conquered `India'-the idea. This book traces the process by which France `claimed India' by defining India through caste, history, race and religion. The obvious question is, of course, why? Why did France invest all this energy, time, and money into defining an area she no longer controlled politically? To challenge the British? To demonstrate her own commitment to the `civilizing mission'? This book demonstrates how France's fascination with India stemmed from all of these motives, as well as being a key component of her own national self-definition in the nineteenth century.