 In The Asiatic Society of Bengal and the Discovery of India 's Past , O.P. <unk> said that Said 's opposition to the monolithic Orientalism of Western discourse prompted him to create a monolithic <unk> , failing to distinguish among the paradigms of Romanticism and the secular intellectual traditions of the Age of Enlightenment . <unk> stated that Said ignored the wide range and fundamental differences of opinion among Orientalists about the nature of Oriental peoples and things , failed to acknowledge that some Orientalists , such as the philologist William Jones , sought to establish " cultural kinship " rather than " cultural difference " between The East and The West , and that these scholars often made discoveries that later provided foundations for anti @-@ imperial nationalism . 
