Orientalist canon-building coincided with Hindu reformist-revivalist ambitions in India

Evidence

In constructing this overlapping literary-religious canonicity, the work of the Orientalist itself overlapped with the ambitions of a great many of the Hindu reformers and revivalists alike, with the distinction between reformism and revivalism becoming in most instances less and less clear. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 1143

Categorization

• SEED: Could feed an essay on how scholarly construction and indigenous elite agency collaborated in inventing tradition — challenging a purely one-directional Orientalist-imposition account.
• XREF: connects to: Competition from Islam and Christianity drove Hindu defensive revival movements — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1093; Orientalist Sanskrit bias excluded Tamil literature from the Indian canon — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 505

Broader Connections

• Competition from Islam and Christianity drove Hindu defensive revival movements #expands (0.75) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1093
• Orientalist Sanskrit bias excluded Tamil literature from the Indian canon #exemplifies (0.72) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 505