Description / Table of Contents:
Intro -- Preface -- Chapter Breakdown -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- 1: James Mill and the History of the History of British India -- James Mill and the Making of His Magnum Opus -- 2: The Francophone Postcolonial Thinkers and the Colonizer-Colonized Dialectic -- Colonized: The Constructed "Other" of the Colonizer -- Racism and the Portrait of the Colonized -- Colonialism, Racism, and the Complicity of Intellectuals in Perpetuating the Nexus -- 3: Primitivizing the Hindus: Hindus as Oppressive and Hierarchical -- Savage and Primitive Hindus: No Sense of History -- Hindu Society: Hierarchical and Oppressive -- Hindu Governance: Despotic, Authoritative, Absolutist, Hierarchical, and Oppressive -- Hindu Laws: Primitive, Savage, Undeveloped, Hierarchical, and Oppressive -- Hinduism: Primitive, Savage, Irrational, Incoherent, Immoral, Childlike, and Pagan -- Hindus: Hierarchical, Oppressive, Women-abusers, Effeminate, Inhuman, Villainous, Timid, Weak, Cowardly, Lazy, Penurious, Greedy, Filthy, Superstitious, and Fatalistic -- 4: Imagining the Hindus and Hinduism -- Postmodern Philosophy of Science, Self-Referentiality, and Binaries -- James Mill, Utilitarianism, and Scottish Enlightenment -- Description of Hindu Society: A Sheer Projection of British Society Which Mill Wanted to Reform -- The Hindu Brahmins in Mill's History are English Clergy -- Mill's Hinduism Is the Mirror Image of the Christianity of the Church of England that He Wanted to Suppress and Transform -- Mill's Hindu Form of Governance Is Fabricated and Projected against the Conditions of Governance He Wanted to Undermine and Suppress in Britain -- Mill Imagines Hindu Jurisprudence against the Backdrop of English Laws that He Wanted to Expel from Britain -- Hindu Laws and Civil Code -- Hindu Laws and Penal Code -- Hindu Laws and the Code of Procedure.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (268 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783031576270
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=31323976
DDC:
325.32
Language:
English
Note:
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