Aryans, Jews, Brahmins: Theorizing Authority Through Myths of Identity
By DOROTHY FIGUEIRA.
Description
Aryans, jews, brahminsunmasks fictions about race, caste and origins and tells us how our fractured present consists of competing pasts. Comparatist scholar dorothy figueiraexaminesthe works of european (voltaire, schlegel, max mušller, nietzsche)and indian (rammohan roy, ayanandasaraswati, tilak, vivekananda) thinkers who built an ideology of the aryan out of mis-readings of "aryan" texts, starting with the veda. In both the east and the west, the search for "original" india became bound up with a search for a superiorrace living in an unchanging utopian past. Fi...
ISBN(s)
8189059718, 9788189059712
