“From Tension to Cooperation: Complex Interactions Between British Orientalists and Indian Scholars in Calcutta, 1784-1794”

Claire Gallien (1)

1 SIECLE (EA_1566) - Secteur Interdisciplinaire des Etudes de Civilisations et Littératures d'Expression Anglaise

This paper is part of a larger research project which aims at revisiting – but not erasing – the history of colonial encounters in India. The present paper shows that, within a context of colonial domination, the personal relationships that both British orientalists and their Indian counterparts engaged in were based on scholarly conviviality and even friendship. These intellectual bonds, as we shall see, clearly run across the usual pattern of colonial domination.

Domaines: Littératures

Claire Gallien. “From Tension to Cooperation: Complex Interactions Between British Orientalists and Indian Scholars in Calcutta, 1784-1794”. Friendship, Conviviality, Hospitality. International Seminar for Junior Eighteenth-Century Scholars, Sep 2008, Pardubice, Czech Republic. pp.1-14. ⟨hal-00334448⟩