The Limits of Orientalism
Sapra, Rahul The Limits of Orientalism: Seventeenth-Century Representations of India challenges the recent postcolonial readings of European, predominantly English, representations of India in the seventeenth century. Following Edward Said's discourse of "Orientalism, " most postcolonial analyses of the seventeenth-century representations of India argue that the natives are represented as barbaric or exotic "others, " imagining these representations as pro...