Antinomies of modernity
Subtitle: essays on race, orient, nation
By: Vasant Kaiwar and Sucheta Mazumdar, editors.
Contributors: Kaiwar, Vasant, 1950-; Mazumdar, Sucheta, 1948-
Publisher: Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
Subjects: Civilization, Modern.; East and West.; North and south.; Imperialism -- History.; Capitalism -- Social aspects -- History.; Race relations -- History.; Orientalism -- History.; South Asia -- Civilization.; Middle East -- Civilization.; Africa -- Civilization.
Description: Drawing on archival sources and fieldwork, the politically engaged essays collected in this text explore aspects of modernity within societies of South Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-323) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Aryan model of history and the oriental renaissance : the politics of identity in an age of revolutions, colonialism, and nationalism / Vasant Kaiwar; title: Aryanizing projects, African "collaborators," and colonial transcripts / Andrew E. Barnes; title: Orientalism's genesis amnesia / Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi; title: Coining words : language and politics in late colonial Tamilnadu / A. R. Venkatachalapathy; title: An anticolonial international? : Indians, India, and Africans in British Central Africa / Michael O. West; title: The "moment of manoeuvre" : "race," ethnicity, and nation in postapartheid South Africa / Neville Alexander; title: Cultural nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism : the case of Iran / Minoo Moallem; title: The politics of religion and national origin : rediscovering Hindu Indian identity in the United States / Sucheta Mazumdar; title: Race, orient, nation in the time-space of modernity / Vasant Kaiwar & Sucheta Mazumdar.