| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 266 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : the colonial history of comparative method -- First stratum : the literary : the Persian imperium and Hafiz, 1771 AD-1390 AD -- Second stratum : the immanent : sharia and the Muallaqāt, 1782 AD-550 AD -- Third stratum : the originary : the dharma and Ṛakuntalā, 1794 AD-1400 BC -- Conclusion : genealogies of emergency. |
| Summary |
This book locates the origins of the modern humanities in the philological practices of late 18th-century British scholars in colonial India, offering a radical reappraisal of a range of disciplines and excavating hiddenpre-colonial practices that might well help the humanities move beyond their current methodological and political impasses. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Imperialism and philology.
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Imperialism and philology. |
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Philology -- Political aspects -- History.
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Philology. |
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History. |
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Humanities -- Methodology -- History.
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Humanities -- Methodology. |
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Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ahmed, Siraj Dean. Archaeology of Babel. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2017 9780804785297 (DLC) 2017028137 |
| ISBN |
9781503604049 (electronic book) |
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1503604047 (electronic book) |
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9780804785297 (hardcover) |
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