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Book SynopsisAsserts that concepts of race, Orient, and nation have been crucial to efforts across the world to create a sense of place, belonging, and solidarity in the midst of the radical discontinuties wrought by global capitalism. This book includes essays that explore aspects of modernity within societies of South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
Trade Review“
Antinomies of Modernity is a fundamental contribution to scholarship decentering Eurocentric epistemic perspectives. Vasant Kaiwar and Sucheta Mazumdar have collected impressive essays, including their own articles and introduction, showing the epistemic potential of ‘antinomies of modernity’ in South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. This collection makes a signal contribution toward a paradigm showing us the way beyond postmodernism and postcolonialism.“—Walter D. Mignolo, Duke University
"Truly international in its engagement,
Antinomies of Modernity is an important, original, and timely collection. As cultural studies turns global, we will need more anthologies like this one."—Christopher Connery, University of California, Santa Cruz
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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
