Archaeology of Babel: The Colonial Foundation of the Humanities

Author/Contributor(s):	Ahmed, Siraj
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Date:	12/12/2017
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

This book locates the origins of the modern humanities in the philological practices of late 18th-century British scholars in colonial India, offering a radical reappraisal of a range of disciplines and excavating hidden pre-colonial practices that might well help the humanities move beyond their current methodological and political impasses.