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Antinomies of modernity : essays on race, orient, nation / Vasant Kaiwar and Sucheta Mazumdar, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization, Modern.
- East and West.
- North and south.
- Imperialism--History.
- Imperialism.
- Capitalism--Social aspects--History.
- Capitalism.
- Race relations--History.
- Race relations.
- Orientalism--History.
- Orientalism.
- South Asia--Civilization.
- South Asia.
- Middle East--Civilization.
- Middle East.
- Africa--Civilization.
- Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (363 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A collection of essays arguing for a global and economically based modernity driven by capitalist development.
- 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 & Sucheta Mazumdar.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-323) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613064486
- 9781283064484
- 1283064480
- 9780822384564
- 0822384566
- OCLC:
- 1139363970
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