Orientalism, Empire, and National Culture

1. Introduction Histories of Empire, Histories of Knowledge
Michael S. Dodson

2. Orientalism and the Writing of World History
Michael S. Dodson

3. Sanskrit Erudition and Forms of Legitimacy
Michael S. Dodson

4. An Empire of the Understanding
Michael S. Dodson

5. Enlisting Sanskrit on the Side of Progress
Michael S. Dodson

6. On Language and Translation
Michael S. Dodson

7. Paṇḍits, Sanskrit Learning, and Europe’s ‘New Knowledge’
Michael S. Dodson

8. Afterword Sanskrit, Authority, National Culture
Michael S. Dodson

Keywords: History, Asian History, History of Britain and Ireland, Asian Culture, Anthropology, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Modern History