Orientalism and Neo-Hinduism

Reader:

30.10. 2006,

Lecture I: Introduction

Peter Heehs, India’s Freedom Struggle, Delhi: OUP, 62004, p. 1-56.

6. 11. 2006

Lecture II: Administration and Knowledge: Warren Hastings and Early Oriental Studies

Bernard Cohn: 'Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge. The British in India', In: Bernard Cohn Omnibus, Delhi: OUP, pp. 57-75.

David Kopf: British Orientalism and Bengal Renaissance, Calcutta, 1969, pp. 13-22.

13.11.2006

Lecture III: Wellesley and the College of Fort William

Bernard Cohn: 'Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge. The British in India', In: Bernard Cohn Omnibus, Delhi: OUP, 2004, pp. 16-56.

20.11.2006

Lecture IV: College of Fort William and Bengali Intelligentsia

Tapan Raychaudhury: 'Background', In: Tapana Raychaudhury: Europe Reconsidered. Delhi: OUP, 2006, pp. 1-26.

27.11.2006

Lecture V: Orientalism and Neo-Hindusm: Rammohan Ray

David Kopf: 'Rammohun Roy and the Bengal Renaissance: An Historiographical Essay', In: V.C. Joshi (ed.): Rammohun Roy and the Process of Modernization in India, Delhi – Bombay – Bangalore – Kanpur: Vikas Publishing, 1975, pp. 21-45. (see

Rammohun Roy: 'A Present to the Believer in one God', In: The English Works of Rammohan Ray, vol. IV (ed. Jogedra Chunder Ghose), Cosmo Publications, New Delhi, 1982, first published 1906, pp. 941-958.

Note:

In case of lectures V and VI student should chose one of the two offered publications in each. He, however should read one secondary source on Rammohan and one primery source (from Rammohan).

4.12.2006

Lecture VI: Rammohan Ray: Hindu Revivalism?

Sumit Sarkar: 'Rammohun Roy and the Break with the Past', In: V.C. Joshi (ed.): Rammohun Roy and the Process of Modernization in India, Delhi – Bombay – Bangalore – Kanpur: Vikas Publishing, 1975, pp. 46-68.

Rammohun Roy: 'A Second Deffence of the Monotheistical systém of the Veds', In: The English Works of Rammohan Ray, vol. I, (ed. Jogedra Chunder Ghose), Cosmo Publications, New Delhi, 1982, first published 1906, pp. 101-126.

Note:

In case of lectures V and VI student should chose one of the two offered publications in each. He, however should read one secondary source on Rammohan and one primery source (from Rammohan).

11.12.2006

Lecture VII: Swami Vivekananda I: Ramakrishna and Bhadralok

Swami Vivekananda: 'Paper on Hinduism', CWSV, vol. I, pp. 6-20.

Partha Chatterjee: 'Religion of Urban Domesticity', In: Partha Chatterjee, Gyanendra Pandey (eds.): Subaltern Studies VII, Delhi: OUP, 2005, pp. 40-68.

18.12.2006

Lecture VIII: Swami Vivekananda II: Religion as Nationalist Discourse

Shamita Basu: Religion as Nationalist Discourse. Delhi: OUP, pp. ? (to be added)

Milan Fujda

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