who is an orientalist
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Orientalists are people who have scholarly knowledge of the culture and languages of Asia.Orientalists were mainly the British administrator historians who believed in the greatness of the Indian culture and opined that the Indians should be educated in their native and local languages.
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An Orientalist is someone from the West who studies the language, culture, history, or customs of countries in eastern Asia.
- A scholar of Oriental studies
- A person or thing relating to the Western intellectual or artistic paradigm known as Orientalism (as in 'an Orientalist painting' or '-painter')
- The Orientalist, a biography of author Lev Nussimbaum by Tom Reiss
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