Orientalism and Race

TONY BALLANTYNE is Lecturer in History at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Previously he has taught at the Universities of Cambridge and Illinois-UC. He has published numerous articles on British colonialism in South Asia and the Pacific, focusing on the place of religion and literacy in the colonial encounter.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Aryanism and the Webs of Empire The Emergence of Aryanism: Company Orientalism, Colonial Governance and Imperial Ethnology Indocentrism on the New Zealand Frontier: Geographies of Race, Empire and Nation Systematizing Religion: From Tahiti to the Tat Khalsa 'Hello Ganesha!': Indocentrism and the Interpretation of Maori Religion Print, Literacy, and the Recasting of Maori Identities The Politics of Language, Nation, and Race: Hindu Identities in the Late Nineteenth Century Conclusion: Knowledge, Empire, Globalization Bibliography Index

'An impressive first book...His grasp of three imperial locations...makes for a powerful analysis. It is an important piece of work and deserves to be widely read.' - Catherine Hall, Journal of Modern History 'Tony Ballantyne has done a masterful job... an excellent start for historians interested in tracing a world system of ideas. The work...will appeal to a broad audience of scholars. I recommend it to anyone interested in New Zealand, India, the intellectual foundations of imperialism, Orientalism in general, or simply the history of ideas.' - Journal of World History 'An important work...innovative and lucid...Combining a wide-ranging comparative framework with rigorous analysis of textual links and intellectual influences, the work has broken the mould of intellectual histories of the British empire. Ballantyne has done imperial history a major service.' - History Workshop Journal 'This is no token attempt at transnational history. It is the real thing.' - James Belich, American Historical Review '...stands out from its contemporaries in presenting the empire...' - Mrinalini Sinha, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 'Orientalism and Race is a roaming work that encapsulates more material than one would have thought possible in fewer than 200 pages...provides a new perspective on the study of history, colonialism and the humanities.' - Ian Malcolmson, University of Auckland, New Zealand