Antinomies of modernity : essays on race, orient, nation / Vasant Kaiwar and Sucheta Mazumdar, editors.

Other author Kaiwar, Vasant, 1950-
Other author Mazumdar, Sucheta, 1948-
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, 2003.
Descriptionviii, 353 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects
Civilization, Modern.
Imperialism--History.
Capitalism--Social aspects. --History.
Race relations--History.
Orientalism--History.
East and West.
North and south.
South Asia--Civilization.
Middle East--Civilization.
Africa--Civilization.

Contents The Aryan model of history and the oriental renaissance : the politics of identity in an age of revolutions, colonialism, and nationalism / Vasant Kaiwar -- Aryanizing projects, african "collaborators," and colonial transcripts / Andrew E. Barnes -- Orientalism's genesis amnesia / Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi -- Coining words : language and politics in late colonial Tamilnadu / A. R. Venkatachalapathy -- An anticolonial international? : Indians, India, and Africans in British Central Africa / Michael O. West -- The "moment of manoeuvre" : "race," ethnicity, and nation in postapartheid South Africa / Neville Alexander -- Cultural nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism : the case of Iran / Minoo Moallem -- The politics of religion and national origin : rediscovering Hindu Indian identity in the United States / Sucheta Mazumdar -- Race, orient, nation in the time-space of modernity / Vasant Kaiwar and Sucheta Mazumdar.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [299]-323) and index.
LCCN 2002014629
ISBN0822330113 (alk. paper)
ISBN0822330466 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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