MHI-04: POLITICAL STRUCTURES IN INDIA
Course Code: MHI-04
Assignment Code: MHI-04/AST/TMA/2016-17
Total Marks: 100
Q8:- Write an essay on the
orientalist and evangelical perceptions of the Indian sociopolitical system.
Orientalist may refer to A scholar of oriental studies
Relating to the Western intellectual or artistic paradigm known as Orientalism
(as in 'an Orientalist painting' or 'painter')
Oriental studies is the academic
field of study that embraces Near Eastern
and Far Eastern
societies and cultures, languages, peoples, history and archaeology; in recent
years the newer term Asian studies has mostly
replaced it. European study of the region had primarily religious origins,
which has remained an important motivation until recent times. Learning from
Arabic medicine and philosophy, and the Arabic translations from Greek, was an
important factor in the Middle Ages. Linguistic knowledge preceded a wider
study of cultures and history, and as Europe began to encroach upon the region,
political and economic factors encouraged growth in academic study. From the
late 18th century archaeology became a link from the discipline to a wide
European public, as treasures brought back filled new European museums. The
modern study was influenced both by Imperialist
attitudes and interests, and also the sometimes naive fascination of the exotic
East for Mediterranean and European writers and thinkers, captured in images by
artists, that is embodied in a repeatedly-surfacing theme in the history of ideas
in the West, called "Orientalism".
In the last century, scholars from the region itself have participated on equal
terms in the discipline, transforming it.
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