Abstract
The present paper explains the relationship of knowledge production and
power with special reference to British government in India and
patronization of orientalist scholarship. It explores the portrayal of Muslims
and their rule in the orientalist texts and the implications of Orientalist’s
construction of ‘the other’ in the identity formation of Indians and in the
polity of British India. It argues that the writings of British administrator
cum historians like Elliot and Dowson were aimed at delegitimizing the
Indian Muslim rulers who had preceded the British. The agenda driven
knowledge production by the orientalist scholars also facilitated the
imperial interests for providing a legitimacy of British rule in India.
Fozia Umar, Misbah Umar. (2021) Raison D’etre of the British Rule in India: Role of The Orientalist Scholarship, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, Volume-58, issue 4.
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