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Orienting India :

These three essays, by Vasudha Dalmia, explore the ways in which Europeans British colonialists and German philosophers and scholars appropriated Indian history, religious scholarship, and ritual practice to assert their own relationship to India and Indians, and even more so, their relationship to...

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Autor principal: Dalmia, Vasudha
Publicado em: New Delhi : Three Essays Collective, 2003.
Edição:1st ed.
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