I. The cultural policy of warren hastings

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents XI
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. The Birth of British Orientalism 1773-1800
6. I. The cultural policy of warren hastings 13
7. II. The orientalist in search of a golden age 22
8. Part II. The Establishment of an Orientalist Training Center 1800-1805
9. III. Wellesley’s “Oxford of the east” 45
10. IV. Recruitment of a faculty 50
11. Part III. The College of Fort William and the Bengal Renaissance 1800-1813
12. V. The college as pivot of an institutional complex 67
13. VI. The college as a center for linguistic modernization and literary revival 81
14. VII. The students at the college: indianization and intellectual development 95
15. VIII. The college environment and the emergence of a modern intelligentsia in Bengal 108
16. Part IV. The Evangelical Challenge in London and the Orientalist Response in Calcutta 1800-1827
17. IX. Evangelical anti-hinduism and the polarization of cultural policy for India 129
18. X. Marquess Hastings's response in Calcutta: orientalist renaissance as a popular culture ideal 145
19. XI. The new frontiers of orientalist scholarship under H.H. Wilson 167
20. XII. The transmission of orientalist ideals and the intellectual awakening of the Calcutta intelligentsia 178
21. Part V. Macaulayism and the Decline and Fall of the Orientalist Movement 1828-1835
22. XIII. A return to the exile mentality and the dissolution of the college of fort William 217
23. XIV. Macaulayism and the defeat of the orientalists 236
24. XV. Macaulayism and the Bengali intelligentsia: the seeds of ambivalence and the beginnings of Indian nationalism 253
25. Part VI. Conclusion
26. XVI. The quest for new perspectives on the encounter of civilizations 275
27. Bibliography 295
28. Index 317