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Cultural Encounters and the Orient: A Study in the Politics of Knowledge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Shiv Visvanathan
Shiv Visvanathan*
Affiliation:
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi
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Johann Galtung in one of his lectures talks of a painting that hung in the ante-room of the late Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah. It was a giant picture of Nkrumah himself struggling loose from his chains. There is thunder and lightning in the air, and in one corner of the picture are three men, three white men. The first is a capitalist and he carries a briefcase. The second is a missionary and he clutches a Bible. The third, the meekest looking carries a book whose title can be barely read. It is African Political Systems, and the third man is an anthropologist.

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Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 50 , Issue 4: From East to West - Civilizations in a Looking-Glass: 50 Years, 1952-2002 , November 2003 , pp. 69 - 81
Copyright
Copyright © ICPHS 2003

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Notes

1. Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, The Bugbear of Literacy, London, Dennis Dobson, 1947, p. 22.

2. Edward W. Said, Orientalism, New York, Vintage, 1978.

3. Octavio Paz, The Other Mexico, New York, Grove Press, 1972.

4. Dharampal, Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century, Mapusa, Other Indian Press, 2000.

5. See Ronald Inden, Imagining India, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1990.

6. See Ashis Nandy and Shiv Visvanathan, ‘Modern Medicine and its Non-modern Critics’, in S. Visvanathan, A Carnival for Science, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1997.

7. See Robert Jungk, Brighter Than a Thousand Suns, Harmondsworth, Middx, Penguin Books, 1958.

8. Patrick Geddes, On Universities in Europe and India: Five Letters to an Indian Friend, Madras, National Press, 1904, p. 19.

9. Ibid, p. 3.

10. Patrick Geddes, The Proposed University for Central India at Indore, Indore, Holkar State Printing Press, 1918.

11. Rabindranath Tagore, Modern Review, Vol. XIV, July 1913 (mimeo).

12. Geddes, 1904, op. cit., p. 17.

13. F. H. King, Farmers of Forty Centuries, Madison, WI, published by Mrs F. H. King, 1911.

14. Albert Howard, An Agricultural Testament, New York, OUP, 1943.

15. See Shiv Visvanathan, A Carnival for Science, Delhi, OUP, 1997, p. 90.

16. Ronald Clark, J. B. S.: The Life and Work of J. B. S. Haldane, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1968.

17. K.R. Dronamaraju, The Life and Work of JBS Haldane with Special Reference to India, Aberdeen, Aberdeen University Press, 1968.

18. Francis Zimmerman, ‘Why Haldane Went to India: Modern Genetics in Quest of Tradition’, in F.A. Marglin and S. Marglin (eds.), Decolonizing Knowledge, Oxford, OUP, 1996, pp. 279-305.

19. Ibid, p. 287.

20. See also Wes Jackson, Altars of Unhewn Stone, San Francisco, Northpoint Press, 1987.