Contested past

Anti-Brahmanical and Hindu nationalist reconstructions of Indian prehistory

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3955162
AutoresMichael Bergunder (Universitat Heidelberg, autor correspondente)
Ano2004
Volume31
Fascículo1
Páginas59-104
Data de publicação2004-07-30
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHistoriographia Linguistica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0302-5160 • E-ISSN: 1569-9781
EditoraJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/hl.31.1.05ber
OpenAlexW2055700203
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas26

During the British colonial regime in the 19th century Western Indologists and missionaries, with the participation of the indigenous scholars who controlled traditional systems of knowledge, formed models for the description of early religious history which was especially inspired by linguistic ideas whose central concept was the so-called 'Aryan immigration' into Northern India. This Orientalist historiography concerning events that lay back several thousand years found its way into political and religious discourse in one form or another. These projections developed into highly significant ingredients of the various political, ethnic, and religious movements and parties, such as the Dravidian Movement or the Nationalist Hindu groupings. The present paper tries to map out the corner stones of modern-day discourses concerning Indian pre- and early history which has developed into something of a veritable battle about the past

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