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Subject: Re: Good articles on English
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--- In agathiyar@y..., JayBee
> True to a certain extent. But there are other angles well.
> Several of them.
>
> 1. British and British orientated authors writing for foreign
readership.
>
> 2. British and British orientated authors writing for Indian
readership
>
> 3. Indian/Asian writers writing for foreign readership
>
> 4. Indian/Asian writers writing for Indian readership
One more angle is that English writers in India had colonial
administrators as their readership. English people , by and large,
are pragmatic and practical people. Hence many of their researches
and writings in India were subject to the overwhelming need of
building the British Empire. By being practical, I don't mean
anything sinister or evil. It is that they were looking primarily of
knowledge about India, which will help them in making an imperial
administration. That was their primary orientation whether they
studied languages or religion or culture.
>
> Apart from this, we have to depend upon foreign sources
> also in the cases of historical documentation. It could be their
> perspective - 'kaNNOttam'. However, there will be elements of truth
> in what they say. Ibn Batuta, Marco Polo, etc.
> Sometimes they are more accurate than our local sources.
> Many a time, our own sources tend to exaggerate things. Or skip
them
> altogether.
>
> Regards
>
> JayBee.
Of course we have to depend many times on foreign records of actual
historical happenings, but those records have also to be seen in the
light of their (i.e. those authors') proclivities, prejudices and
intentions.
