Fw: Orientalism Revisited

Rakesh Bhandari bhandari at phoenix.Princeton.EDU
Wed Jan 26 06:52:29 PST 2000


There is no anti British
>sentiment in Phule's work.
Ulhas, this is a far cry from the pro British sentiment you had attributed to him, and in no way denies that the movment that was influenced by him grew anti British as well as anti Brahman as its radicalism peaked,


>My remarks about Marx were based on my sense of Marx's overall work,
>particularly Capital and Grundrisse. I am not familiar with Krader's
>arguments. However, I am sceptical about the idea of a pre-existing human
>essence corrupted by capitalism.
>
Krader does not claim an essence. Argues that in the ethnological notebooks Marx critiques bourgeois asses who find their conventionalities, i.e., the essence of man as shopkeeper, everywhere. More later. Will be off line for several days.

bye, r



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