ASIA_NEWS: Southeast Asian History Reading Group

Greg Young greg at orient.anu.edu.au
Tue Feb 18 11:28:56 EST 2003


From: Mark Emmanuel
About: Correction in Date for the Next Reading Group

There was a mistake in the date for the Southeast Asian History
Reading Group Meeting to discuss Ronald Indens paper on Orientalist
Constructions of India.

It should read Friday, 21 Feb and NOT 14 Feb. Apologies for the error.

The full text of the message should now be:

Time: 3.30-4.30pm

Date: Friday, 21 Feb 2003

Venue: Staff Common Lounge, Level 4, Faculty of Asian Studies

Reading: Ronald Inden, Orientalist constructions of India, in Modern
Asian Studies 20(3):401-446.

Available through JSTOR:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0026-749X%281986%2920%3A3%3C401%3AOCOI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-E

Comment: Its central ideas are that Orientalists see India as `other'.
Positivists see caste as the key to `understanding India' and
idealists see Hinduism as the key. Both ignore individual human
agency.

***Please print the article from JSTOR, which is available through the
ANU librarys database.

Do not hit 'reply' to respond to this message. If you wish to attend
the reading group and would like a copy of the article, please RSVP
Mark Emmanuel or McComas Taylor. Thank you.

Conveners:



Conveners:

McComas Taylor
(<mailto:McComas.Taylor at anu.edu.au>McComas.Taylor at anu.edu.au)

Mark Emmanuel
(<mailto:Mark.Emmanuel at anu.edu.au>Mark.Emmanuel at anu.edu.au)


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