Orientalism and Race: Aryanism in the British Empire

✍ Scribed by Tony Ballantyne (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 278
• Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This study traces the emergence and dissemination of Aryanism within the British Empire. The idea of an Aryan race became an important feature of imperial culture in the nineteenth century, feeding into debates in Britain, Ireland, India, and the Pacific. The global reach of the Aryan idea reflected the complex networks that enabled the global reach of British Imperialism. Tony Ballantyne charts the shifting meanings of Aryanism within these 'webs' of Empire.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Aryanism and the Webs of Empire....Pages 1-17
The Emergence of Aryanism: Company Orientalism, Colonial Governance and Imperial Ethnology....Pages 18-55
Indocentrism on the New Zealand Frontier: Geographies of Race, Empire and Nation....Pages 56-82
Systematizing Religion: from Tahiti to the Tat Khalsa....Pages 83-117
‘Hello Ganesha!’: Indocentrism and the Interpretation of Maori Religion....Pages 118-145
Print, Literacy and the Recasting of Maori Identities....Pages 146-168
The Politics of Language, Nation and Race: Hindu Identities in the Late Nineteenth Century....Pages 169-187
Conclusion: Knowledge, Empire, Globalization....Pages 188-196
Back Matter....Pages 197-266

✦ Subjects

History of Britain and Ireland;World History, Global and Transnational History;Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights;Asian History