Aryans, Jews, Brahmins : Theorizing Authority Through Myths of Identity.

Intro -- ARYANS, JEWS, BRAHMINS -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- SHARED MYTHS -- THE ARYAN CANON -- METHODOLOGY AND PLAN -- PART I: The Authority of an Absent Text -- 1. The Enlightenment and Orientalist Discourse on the Aryan -- THE ENLIGHTENMENT BACKGROUND -- VOLTAIRE AND THE SEARCH FOR AUTHORITY -- LOCUS OF POETIC INSPIRATION OR SITE OF CULTURAL DECAY? -- CONCLUSION -- 2. The Romantic Aryans -- ROMANTIC MYTH THEORY -- FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF ROMANTIC LINGUISTICS -- ROMANTIC MYTHOGRAPHERS AND THE UPNEKHATA -- ROMANTIC INDOLOGY: THE CASE OF MAX MÜLLER -- CONCLUSION -- 3. Nietzsche's Aryan Übermensch -- INTRODUCTION -- READING NIETZSCHE READING INDIA -- MANU AS A "SEMITIZED" ARYAN SOURCEBOOK -- THE ARYAN AS ÜBERMENSCH -- CHRISTIANITY, AN ANTI-ARYAN OUTCASTE RELIGION -- THE JEW AND THE ARYAN -- CONCLUSION -- 4. Loose Can[n]ons -- RACIAL THEORY: AN OVERVIEW -- GOBINEAU AND THE ARYAN ARISTOCRAT -- HOUSTON STEWART CHAMBERLAIN: ARYAN PUBLICIST -- ALFRED ROSENBERG AND THE NORDIC ARYAN -- CONCLUSION -- PART II: Who Speaks for the Subaltern? -- 5. Rammohan Roy -- READING REFORM -- THE COMPLEXITY OF THE COLONIAL SUBJECT -- SCRIPTURAL AUTHORITY AND THE HERMENEUTICS OF SATI -- MISREADING MONOTHEISM: IDOLATRY AND BRAHMIN PERFIDY -- RAMMOHAN ROY'S SYNCRETISM AND ITS CHALLENGE TO POSTCOLONIAL THEORY -- 6. Text-based Identity: Dayanand Saraswati's Reconstruction of the Aryan Self -- INTRODUCTION -- DAYANAND'S CANON AND HERMENEUTICAL STRATEGIES FOR READING THE ARYAN WORLD -- ARYAN MASCULINITY AND THE TELEOLOGY OF DECAY -- CONCLUSION -- 7. Aryan Identity and National Self-Esteem -- INTRODUCTION -- JUSTICE RANADE AND LOKAMANYA TILAK -- SWAMI VIVEKANANDA -- CONCLUSION -- 8. The Anti-Myth -- INTRODUCTION -- THE ARYAN AND ITS OTHER -- MAHATMA PHULE -- DR. AMBEDKAR -- CONCLUSION -- Afterword -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION.

PART I. THE AUTHORITY OF THE ABSENT TEXT -- 1. THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND ORIENTALIST DISCOURSE ON THE ARYAN -- 2. THE ROMANTIC ARYANS -- 3. NIETZSCHE'S ARYAN ÜBERMENSCH -- 4. LOOSE CAN[N]ONS -- PART II. WHO SPEAKS FOR THE SUBALTERN? -- 5. RAMMOHAN ROY -- 6. TEXT-BASED IDENTITY: DAYANAND SARASWATI 'S RECONSTRUCTION OF THE ARYAN SELF -- 7. ARYAN IDENTITY AND NATIONAL SELF-ESTEEM -- 8. THE ANTI-MYTH -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Explores the construction of the Aryan myth and its uses in both India and Europe.

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