Orientalism and Neo­Hinduism
Reader:
30.10. 2006, 
Lecture I: Introduction 
Peter Heehs, India's Freedom Struggle, Delhi: OUP, 6
2004, p. 1­56.
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. 57­75.
David Kopf: British Orientalism and Bengal Renaissance, Calcutta, 1969, pp. 13­22. 
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. 16­56.
20.11.2006
Lecture IV: College of Fort William and Bengali Intelligentsia
Tapan Raychaudhury: 'Background', In: Tapana Raychaudhury: Europe Reconsidered. Delhi: OUP, 
2006, pp. 1­26.
27.11.2006
Lecture V: Orientalism and Neo­Hindusm: 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. 21­45. (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. 941­958.
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. 46­68. 
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. 101­126.
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. 6­20.
Partha Chatterjee: 'Religion of Urban Domesticity', In: Partha Chatterjee, Gyanendra Pandey (eds.): 
Subaltern Studies VII, Delhi: OUP, 2005, pp. 40­68. 
18.12.2006
Lecture VIII: Swami Vivekananda II: Religion as Nationalist Discourse
Shamita Basu: Religion as Nationalist Discourse. Delhi: OUP, pp. ? (to be added)