Casteing Race: Enlightenment Encounters with the Brahmin.
Taking Voltaire's engagement with India as a case study, this article argues that the hermeneutic of caste has a crucial role to play in the development of Enlightenment thought. Voltaire relies on the authority of the Brahmin figure, along with a deference to (forged) scriptures like the Ezourvedam...
| Published in: | Eighteenth Century Fiction Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 278 - 302 |
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University of Toronto Press
Apr2025
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