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| العنوان: |
"India Lay before Us": The Asiatic Researches, William Jones, and the Orientalist Construction of "Indian Literature". |
| المؤلفون: |
V. Nair, Atul |
| المصدر: |
South Asian Review; Sep2024, Vol. 45 Issue 3, p243-258, 16p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
INDIC literature, INFLUENCE (Literary, artistic, etc.), COMPARATIVE linguistics, BRITISH colonies, ORIENTALISM |
| مستخلص: |
This paper examines the construction of "Indian literature" as an object of enquiry in William Jones's essays in the Asiatic Researches (1788-1794). In the first section it studies Jones's method of employing the nation as a frame of reference in geographical and cultural terms in order to construct a "national" literature for India. Extending the scope of his comparative philology, the second section argues that Jones sought to establish an equivalence between diverse literary traditions such as the Indo-Persian and the European, for the benefit of his European readership. The paper concludes by exploring the role of what Bernard Cohn terms the "enumerative modality" as a specific method of investigation through which the Asiatic Researches classifies and thus defines India's diverse and multitudinous literatures. Being informed by colonial discourse studies as well as periodicals research, this paper focuses on the rhetorical construction of the widely accepted nexus between Orientalism and British imperialism in late eighteenth-century India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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