Download or read book Orientalism, Empire, and National Culture written by M. Dodson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orientalist research has most often been characterised as an integral element of the European will-to-power over the Asian world. This study seeks to nuance this view, and asserts that British Orientalism in India was also an inherently complex and unstable enterprise, predicated upon the cultural authority of the Sanskrit pandits.