Culture, Ideology, Hegemony: Intellectuals and Social Consciousness in Colonial India

by K. N. Panikkar

Overview

This volume explores the interconnections between culture, ideology and hegemony in an effort to understand and explain how Indians came to terms with colonial subjection and envisioned a future for the society in which they lived. The process of exploring the indigenous epistemological tradition and assessing it in the context of advances made by the west was not unilinear and undifferentiated; it was driven with contradictions, contentions and ruptures.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781843310396
Publisher:	Anthem Press
Publication date:	07/01/2002
Series:	Anthem South Asian Studies
Edition description:	First Edition, 1
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

K. N. Panikkar is Vice-Chancellor of Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kerala. He was until recently Professor of History at Jawarharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has written extensively on the cultural and intellectual history of colonial India.

Table of Contents

Preface; Acknowledgements; An Overview; Cultural Trends in Pre-Colonial India; Historiographical and Conceptual Questions; Culture and Ideology; Search for Alternatives: Meaning of the Past in Colonial India; Creating a New Cultural Taste: Reading a Nineteenth-Century Malayalam Novel; Indigenous Medicine and Cultural Hegemony; Marriage Reform: Ideology and Social Base