Marx rejected Orientalist golden-age romanticism about India’s past.
Evidence
India, and that Marx self-consciously dissociates himself from that position when he declares earlier, in that very first dispatch: ‘I share not the opinion of those who believe in a golden age of Hindustan.’ … The idea of a golden age in the remote past which India now needed to reconstituteone that sections of Orienralist scholarship had inherited from strands of High Brahminismwas to bequeath itself to a great many tendencies in Indian nationalism, as we shall soon see. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 1049
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the race-struggle/discourse-determinism thread and how colonial historiography inherits native elite ideology (High Brahminism). — connects to: Anti-imperialist historians of India contradict the portrayal of Marx as an Orientalist — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 73; Marx rejected any universal concept of production outside history. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 881; Said reads Marx’s sympathy for Asia as blocked by Orientalist discourse — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 992
Broader Connections
- Said reads Marx’s sympathy for Asia as blocked by Orientalist discourse
#complicates(0.88) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 992 - Anti-imperialist historians of India contradict the portrayal of Marx as an Orientalist
#corroborates(0.82) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 73 - Marx rejected any universal concept of production outside history.
#qualifies(0.74) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 881