{"product_id":"aryans-and-british-india-hardcover","title":"Aryans and British India - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThomas R. Trautmann\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Aryan,\" a word that today evokes images of racial hatred and atrocity, was first used by Europeans to suggest bonds of kinship, as Thomas Trautmann shows in his far-reaching history of British Orientalism and the ethnology of India. When the historical relationship uniting Sanskrit with the languages of Europe was discovered, it seemed clear that Indians and Britons belonged to the same family. Thus the Indo-European or Aryan idea, based on the principle of linguistic kinship, dominated British ethnological inquiry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the nineteenth century, however, an emergent biological \"race science\" attacked the authority of the Orientalists. The spectacle of a dark-skinned people who were evidently civilized challenged Victorian ideas, and race science responded to the enigma of India by redefining the Aryan concept in narrowly \"white\" racial terms. By the end of the nineteenth century, race science and Orientalism reached a deep and lasting consensus in regard to India, which Trautmann calls \"the racial theory of Indian civilization,\" and which he undermines with his powerful analysis of colonial ethnology in India. His work of reassessing British Orientalism and the Aryan idea will be of great interest to historians, anthropologists, and cultural critics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAryans and British India\u003c\/i\u003e is a seminal work and will be read and reread by serious students of Indian history for many generations.--Stanley Wolpert, author of \u003ci\u003eIndia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a creative and venturesome rethinking of issues of race, language, and caste in the British colonial understanding of India.--Aram A. Yengoyan, University of California, Davis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAryans and British India\u003c\/i\u003e is a seminal work and will be read and reread by serious students of Indian history for many generations.--Stanley Wolpert, author of \u003ci\u003eIndia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a creative and venturesome rethinking of issues of race, language, and caste in the British colonial understanding of India.\"--Aram A. Yengoyan, University of California, Davis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas R. Trautmann\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Michigan and author of \u003ci\u003eLewis Henry Morgan and the Invention of Kinship\u003c\/i\u003e (California, 1987) and \u003ci\u003eDravidian Kinship\u003c\/i\u003e (1982).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 259\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.96 x 9.3 x 6.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 30, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45424691118182,"sku":"9780520205468","price":124.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/WExTSXNLSTlZZ2V5eWRSZTV6SGdwQT09.webp?v=1775605799","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/aryans-and-british-india-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}