Impact of Orientalism in India

Abstract

Abstract

Edward said evaluation and critique of the set of beliefs known as orientalism forms an important ground for post-colonial studies. It is the long tradition of western scholarship on eastern culture. It is a style of thought based upon ontological and epistemological distinction made between “orient” and “occident” It decodes the power relationship between the orient and the occident to analyse how the west manipulates knowledge of and for the orient, and to elaborate how the east is influenced and existed in knowledge.