E-Book, Englisch, 362 Seiten
Kaiwar / Mazumdar Antinomies of Modernity
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8456-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
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Essays on Race, Orient, Nation
E-Book, Englisch, 362 Seiten
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8456-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
A collection of essays arguing for a global and economically based modernity driven by capitalist development.
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Acknowledgments vii
Introduction / Vasant Kaiwar and Sucheta Mazumdar 1
The Aryan Model of History and the Oriental Renaissance: The Politics of Identity in an Age of Revolutions, Colonialism, and Nationalism / Vasant Kaiwar 13
Aryanizing Projects, African “Collaborators," and Colonial Transcripts / Andrew E. Barnes 62
Orientalism's Genesis Amnesia / Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi 98
Coining Words: Language and Politics in Late Colonial Tamilnadu / A. R. Venkatachalapathy 126
An Anticolonial International?: Indians, India, and Africans in British Central Africa / Michael O. West 146
The “Moment of Manoeuvre": “Race," Ethnicity, and Nation in Postapartheid South Africa / Neville Alexander 180
Cultural Nationalism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Case of Iran / Minoo Moallem 196
The Politics of Religion and National Origin: Rediscovering Hindu Indian Identity in the United States / Sucheta Mazumdar 223
Race, Orient, Nation in the Time-Space of Modernity / Vasant Kaiwar and Sucheta Mazumdar 261
Select Bibliography 299
Contributors 325
Index 329