Overview of Aryans, Jews, Brahmins: Theorizing Authority through Myths of Identity Book

Aryans, Jews, Brahmins unmasks fictions about race, caste and origins and tells us how our fractured present consists of competing pasts. Comparatist scholar Dorothy Figueira examines the works of European (Voltaire, Schlegel, Max M ller, Nietzsche) and Indian (Rammohan Roy, Dayananda Saraswati, Tilak, Vivekananda) thinkers who built an ideology of the Aryan out of mis-readings of Aryan texts, starting with the Veda. In both the East and the West, the search for original India became bound up with a search for a superior race living in an unchanging utopian past. Figueira then looks with hope to Phule and Ambedkar who subverted this nationalist script in their portrait of the anti-Aryan. As the Aryan myth is resuscitated today in the service of Hindu revival, this work of impeccable scholarship assumes urgency. Figueira s well-researched inquiry of the Aryan myth goes far in framing the political psychology of today Outlook The book is pertinent both to the continuing historical debate about the Aryans and to current politics in India Romila Thapar Figueira also studies alternatives to these myths among dalit intellectuals whose endeavors are rarely understood or acknowledged adequately in historical scholarship Tanika Sarkar

• Book Type :

Political Ideologies

• Book Binding :

Paperback

• Language :

English

• Number of Pages :

• ISBN - 10 :

8189059718

• Aryans, Jews, Brahmins: Theorizing Authority through Myths of Identity Published On :

2015

• Resource:

Politics, Political Ideologies Books for Students, Teachers, Graudates, Professionals and all others

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