The Journal of the American Oriental Society, July 1st, 1998
By THOMAS TRAUTMANN. Berkeley and Los Angeles: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, 1997. Pp. 274. $35.
At a time of academic orthodoxies such as deconstructionism, social constructivism, and "hegemonicmaniaism," it is refreshing to come across a book of history which simply seeks to tell it as it was, backing up assertions with concrete evidence. The subject of Professor Trautmann's historical work is British intellectual curiosity and scholarly output on India during the nineteenth-century era of the British Raj. "Orientalist" was a term applied to Britishers in India in the early nineteenth c...
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