Hartly House, Calcutta
€ 47,90
Informação do Produto
| ISBN | 9781526134370 |
|---|---|
| Editora | Manchester University Press |
| Formato | Capa mole |
| Número de páginas | 272 |
| Peso (kg) | 0,348 |
| Data de Publicação | 13/02/2019 |
| Preço (iva excl.) | € 45,19 |
| Imposto | € 2,71 |
| Preço (iva inc.) | € 47,90 |
| Disponibilidade | 6 unidades em armazém externo |
Descrição do Produto
This novel is a designedly political document. Written at the time of the Hastings impeachment and set in the period of Hastings’s Orientalist government, Hartly House, Calcutta (1789) represents a dramatic delineation of the Anglo-Indian encounter. The novel constitutes a significant intervention in the contemporary debate concerning the nature of Hastings’s rule of India by demonstrating that it was characterised by an atmosphere of intellectual sympathy and racial tolerance. Within a few decades the Evangelical and Anglicising lobbies frequently condemned Brahmans as devious beneficiaries of a parasitic priestcraft, but Phebe Gibbes’s portrayal of Sophia’s Brahman and the religion he espouses represent a perception of India dignified by a sympathetic and tolerant attempt to dispel prejudice. -- .