Premise: In a book called In Theory --a wholesale slaughter of the sacred cows of the postmodern Western intelligentsia--the Indian Marxist literary critic Aijaz Ahmad raised further questions about Said's mastery of his sources and accused him of self-aggrandizement and insufficient political discipline.

Hypothesis: Aijaz turned down the chance to write a book, instead opting to work as Said's assistant.
Relation: contradiction