European Picture of Ancient India
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| Year of publication | 2005 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Orientalia Antiqua Nova |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Philosophy and religion |
| Keywords | orientalism; India; |
| Description | This paper is going to devote itself to certain aspects of modern Western construction of the picture of ancient India. Mechaninisms of construction: a) ontologizing of binary value opposition; b) homogenozation (brahmanization, sanskrtization, colonial orientalism); c) textualism. Content of the construction: a) Aryan myth; b) castes. |
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