Beyond orientalism: an exploration of some recent themes in Indian history and society/ Kate Curie.

Includes bibliography and index.

1. Orientalism -- The Re-Discovery of Orientausm : Said and Turner -- The Second Wave Critique : Inden on Imagining India -- Cohn and the New Wave Chicago School -- Gandhi and Orientausm : Inden and Nandy -- 2. Marx and Asiaticism : A Critical Appraisal -- Marx, the AMP and Asiaticism ; the Theoretical For mulation -- Marx, the AMP and Asiaticism : the Substantive Account -- Marx the AMP and Asiaticism : the Construction of Materialist Orientausm -- Marx, the AMP and Asiaticism ; the Critical Commentaries -- 3. Modes of Production and the Indian Social Formation -- The Mode of Production in Indian History -- Class Structure and Modes under the Mughals -- The Mode op Production within A colonial Context -- 4. India and the Emergence of the World System -- Wallerstein and the World System ; Hegemonic Struggles in the Core -- Wallerstein and the World System : Auto-Critical Update -- Wallerstein and the Critics -- World System Perspective Analysis and India -- 5. Subaltern Studies : Writings on South Asian History and Society -- Subaltern Studies : Intellectual Antecedents -- Subaltern Studies; The Early Years -- Subaltern Studies : The Accelerated Shift from Foundational Categories and the Emergence of Gender -- Subaltern Struggles outside of Subaltern Studies -- Subalternists and Other nationalist Movements -- The Subaltern Legacy -- 6. Structures ofPatriarchy and Constructions of Gender -- Women, Gender and Representations -- Gender and Patriarchy -- Seclusion and Power -- Sati and Discourse -- Colonial and Nationalist Discourses
Gandhian Patriarchy -- Ram and the Critique of Dualism