White Mughals
William DalrympleWhite Mughals,is a book that sees Indian religion as an alternative to the spirit of rational scepticism of the West. One of the book’s central points is that learning about other cultures resolves a dissolving of strong centres of observation. It conveys that there was no uniform image of India – narratives differs not only due to the profession and personal backgrounds of the writer but also a series of social contexts and historical reasons shaping the narrative. What surprises Dalrymple is that he himself is the product of interracial liaison of the period and have Indian blood in his veins and describes it as:
No one in my family seemed to know about this, though it Should not have been a surprise: we had allheard the stories of how our beautiful, dark-eyed Calcutta-born great-great-grandmother Sophia
Pattle, with whom Bune-Jones had fallen in love, used to speak Hindustani with her sisters and was painted by Watts with a rakhi – a Hindu sacred thread – tied around her wrist. (xli) He is also surprised to see the enthusiasm with which people engage in their religion as a significant center of life. The book records the religious practices history of the land, the geographic, political, or economic aspects of
Hyderabad. Dalrymple seeks a self understanding by examining an alien culture; on the other hand
Naipaul constructs a hierarchy of civilizations. The narrative voice is restrained, in his own words to that of an outsider.
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Anno:
2011
Casa editrice:
Penguin USA, Inc.
Lingua:
english
Pagine:
650
ISBN 10:
1101098120
ISBN 13:
9781101098127
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EPUB, 1.02 MB
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english, 2011
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