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Hartly House, Calcutta

Michael J Franklin

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  • 272 sidor
  • 2019
This novel is a designedly political document. Written at the time of the Hastings impeachment and set in the period of Hastingss 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 Hastingss 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 Gibbess portrayal of Sophias Brahman and the religion he espouses represent a perception of India dignified by a sympathetic and tolerant attempt to dispel prejudice. -- .
  • Författare: Michael J Franklin
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781526134370
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 272
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2019-02-13
  • Förlag: Manchester University Press