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« The Fascination for India », La Vie des idées, 11 March 2013Review by Jules Naudet (Translated by Rohini Rangachari)Roland Lardinois, Scholars and Prophets. Sociology of India from France 19th-20th Centuries. New Delhi: Social Science Press, 2013"Since the 18th century, India has been portrayed in contradictory ways. While scholarly knowledge is based on the philological study of texts, literary Orientalism expresses its fascination for a society well-known to preserve the values of order and hierarchy. For Roland Lardinois the anthropology of Louis Dumont illustrates the ambiguity of these discourses."Continued: http://www.booksandideas.net/The-Fascination-for-India.html?lang=fr&#160;