Imagining India. (book review)

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press 312 pp., $18.95, ISBN 0-253-21358-4 Publication Date: March 2000

Ronald B. Inden's Imagining India is a treatise on understanding India. First published in 1990, this edition is updated and contains a new introduction. It is based on the larger question of Indian identity: What has it meant through the ages? Inden judiciously portrays the Indian perspective "as it was," that is, before Western writers began misrepresenting India.

Inden's analysis of the Indian diaspora is an exercise in the deconstruction of Indology. He ...

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