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Rethinking Orientalism: Colonialism and the Study of Indian TraditionsAuthor(s): Raf Gelders and S. N. BalagangadharaReviewed work(s):Source: History of Religions, Vol. 51, No. 2 (November 2011), pp. 101-128Published by: The University of Chicago PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/660928 .

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