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It then turns to colonial and subaltern voices, focusing on Rammohan Roy and reform hermeneutics, Dayanand Saraswati’s scriptural reconstruction, Indian nationalism, and critical anti-myth responses by Phule and Ambedkar.","ARYANS, JEWS, BRAHMINS  \nSUNY series, The Margins of Literature Mihai I. Spariosu, editor  \nARYANS, JEWS, BRAHMINS  \nTheorizing Authority through Myths of Identity  \nDOROTHY M. FIGUEIRA  \nSTATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS  \nPublished by  \nState University of New York Press, Albany © 2002 State University of New York All rights reserved  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \nNo part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission. No part of this book may be stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means including electronic, electrostatic,  \nmagnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission in writing of the publisher.  \nFor information, address State University of New York Press, 90 State Street, Suite 700, Albany, NY 12207  \nProduction by Marilyn P. Semerad Marketing by Michael Campochiaro  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nFigueira, Dorothy Matilda, 1955–  \nAryans, Jews, Brahmins : theorizing authority through myths of identity / Dorothy M. Figueira.  \n[p. cm](p. cm)—(SUNY series, the margins of literature) Includes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN 0–7914–5531–9 (HC : alk. paper)—ISBN 0–7914–5532–7  \n(pbk. : alk. paper)  \n1. Indo-Aryans. 2. India—Civilization. 3. Vedic literature–History and criticism 4. Racism—Europe—History—19th century.  \n5. Antisemiticism. I. Title. II. Series  \nDS425 .F57 2002 934—dc21  \n2002024176  \n10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \nI dedicate this volume to my daughter, Lila, and in loving memory of my mother, Marion Gentile Figueira  \nThis page intentionally left blank.  \nContents  \nAcknowledgments ix  \nIntroduction 1  \nShared Myths 1  \nThe Aryan Canon 1  \nMethodology and Plan 2  \nPart I. The Authority of an Absent Text 7  \nChapter 1 The Enlightenment and Orientalist Discourse on the Aryan 8  \nThe Enlightenment Background 8  \nVoltaire and the Search for Authority 10  \nLocus of Poetic Inspiration or Site of Cultural Decay? 18  \nConclusion 25  \nChapter 2 The Romantic Aryans 27  \nRomantic Myth Theory 27  \nFriedrich Schlegel and the Foundations of  \nRomantic Linguistics 28  \nRomantic Mythographers and the Upnekhata 31  \nRomantic Indology: The Case of Max Müller 34  \nConclusion 47  \nChapter 3 Nietzsche’s Aryan Übermensch 50  \nIntroduction 50  \nReading Nietzsche Reading India 52  \nManu as a “Semitized” Aryan Sourcebook 54  \nThe Aryan as Übermensch 55  \nChristianity, an Anti-Aryan Outcaste Religion 57  \nThe Jew and the Aryan 58  \nConclusion 61  \nChapter 4 Loose Can[n]ons 64  \nRacial Theory: An Overview 64  \nviii Contents  \nGobineau and the Aryan Aristocrat 67  \nHouston Stewart Chamberlain: Aryan Publicist 73  \nAlfred Rosenberg and the Nordic Aryan 80  \nConclusion 86  \nPart II. 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