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To answer the questions read chapter 21 which are pages 370 to pages 392. Answer every question in minimum 500 words. Provide evidences with page numbers from the chapter.
1) What were the three waves of the British Raj in India?

2) In what ways did the British go “native” and support caste, race, religion, and class in

3) India during the first wave? Why did they prefer the company of Muslims to Hindus?

4) Explain “Orientalism,” “Occidentalism,” and their problems of their respective stereotypes.

5) Using the example of Charles Wilkins’s 1785 translation of the Bhagavad Gita explain how Europeans could continue to revere the culture of the people who had the oldest language and civilization, at the same time as they justified their rule over Indians, who they benighted primitives.

6) Discuss with two examples how highly placed Hindus swallowed British Protestantism to sanitize Hinduism.

7) How does Doniger evaluate the legacy of Kipling, doing justice both to his racism and to his deeply perceptive portrayal of India?

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Question-1

three wave of British Raj in India:

The first wave: Conservative and Orientalist

In the British Caste system .

B. The Second Waves : Evangeltcals and Oppertunists and the missionaries.

C. The third Wave : utilitarian and anglist and the rebellion mutiny 1857

Question-2

Whatever their social origin in Britain, the British generally joined in upper class , when they entered in India. They saw the natieve prince , not the Brahamins , at the top of multistory Hindu heirchy generally treated. At Raj , British , employee of the john company went more intimate way in native .

British prefer the company of Muslim in following way

1. Despite their assimilation , to a Hindu class, but British tend to company with Muslim much prefer . Because Muslim was ruler likes them.

2. Muslim were better horsemen than Hindus.

3. Islam is monotheism .that revered the Herbew Bible and the Christian new Testamen.it was quite easy convert to Islam.

4. The native Nawab was collobrative with British residents .so that later part of the entrepreneurial class in 1765.on of last mughuals formally inducted Robert Clives, governor of Bengal from 1755, to 1760 as Mughal herarchy as diwan or chancellor of Bemgal.

Orientalist:

An Orientalist is someone from West who studies the language , culture, history, customs, of countries Eastern Asia.orientalism is term used by art historian literary and culture studies scholar for the imitation or dipiction of aspects in middle eastern , south Asian.

Occidentalism:

Occidentalism is used term to refer Western world in two ways , 1 ) as dehumanizing syreotype of Western world , Europe, the Americans, Australia, new Zelaand as well south africa, Israel

2. Idealogical representation of west..

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