Imperial Encounters by Peter Van Der Veer
Examines the mutual impact of Britain's colonization of India on Indian and British culture. This title shows that national culture in both India and Britain developed in relation to their shared colonial experience and that notions of religion and secularity were crucial in imagining the modern nation in both countries.
"Peter van der Veer's bracing, audacious book is sure to stir up much-needed debateChallenging the canonical narratives that have governed analysis of colonialism, culture, and religion, he advances a bold thesis about their complicity across boundaries and nationalist categories. Deeply learned and elegantly presented, Imperial Encounters is a gripping work of the scholarly imagination."—Edward W. Said, Columbia University
"This is a splendid book. Peter van der Veer has drawn on a wide range of fascinating readings to elaborate the post-colonial thesis that the modern histories of Britain and India have been mutually constitutive. I believe he is absolutely right in insisting on the fact—and demonstrating it so ably—that modern ideas like nation, religion, and race must be understood, if they are to be understood fully, through an interactional approach. Anyone interested in recent thinking about the joint history of colonialism and modernity should not miss this work."—Talal Asad, City University of New York
"Peter van der Veer has made extremely important contributions to the study of Indian history and society. In recent years, he has taken a particularly important approach, one the puts him at the cutting edge of historical work, in placing the European metropole and the Asian colonized into the same historical space. In this volume, he explores one aspect of the subject in depth and provides a coherent single-voice narrative. The scholarship is of the highest level, and van der Veer writes very well, often with a clever nuance or twist."—Barbara Metcalf, University of California, Davis
"This is a splendid book. Peter van der Veer has drawn on a wide range of fascinating readings to elaborate the post-colonial thesis that the modern histories of Britain and India have been mutually constitutive. I believe he is absolutely right in insisting on the fact—and demonstrating it so ably—that modern ideas like nation, religion, and race must be understood, if they are to be understood fully, through an interactional approach. Anyone interested in recent thinking about the joint history of colonialism and modernity should not miss this work."—Talal Asad, City University of New York
"Peter van der Veer has made extremely important contributions to the study of Indian history and society. In recent years, he has taken a particularly important approach, one the puts him at the cutting edge of historical work, in placing the European metropole and the Asian colonized into the same historical space. In this volume, he explores one aspect of the subject in depth and provides a coherent single-voice narrative. The scholarship is of the highest level, and van der Veer writes very well, often with a clever nuance or twist."—Barbara Metcalf, University of California, Davis
Peter van der Veer is Professor of Comparative Religion and Director of the Research Center for Religion and Society at the University of Amsterdam. His books include Gods on Earth The Management of Religious Experience and identity in a North Indian Pilgrimage Centre, Religious Nationalism; Hindus and Muslims in India. and Modern Orientalism. He is the editor of Nation and Migration The Politics of Space in the South Asian Diasporo. Conversion to Modernities: The Globalization of Christianity, and with Hartmut Lehmann, Nation and Religion Perspectives on Europe and Asia (Princeton).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691074788 |
| ISBN 10 | 069107478X |
| Title | Imperial Encounters |
| Author | Peter Van Der Veer |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 2001-04-09 |
| Number of pages | 216 |
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