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Age of Enlightenment
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Ashis Nandy
Author_Dipesh Chakrabarty
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Citizenship
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Colonial India
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E. P. Thompson
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Eric Hobsbawm
Explanation
Grundrisse
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Indian nationalism
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Liberalism
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Martin Heidegger
Marxism
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Mehta
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Michael Madhusudan Dutt
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Rabindranath Tagore
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Subaltern (postcolonialism)
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Sumit Sarkar
Swadeshi movement
The Other Hand
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Product details
- ISBN 9780691130019
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 18 Nov 2007
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries. This imaginary Europe, Dipesh Chakrabarty argues, is built into the social sciences. The very idea of historicizing carries with it some peculiarly European assumptions about disenchanted space, secular time, and sovereignty. Measured against such mythical standards, capitalist transition in the third world has often seemed either incomplete or lacking. Provincializing Europe proposes that every case of transition to capitalism is a case of translation as well--a translation of existing worlds and their thought--categories into the categories and self-understandings of capitalist modernity. Now featuring a new preface in which Chakrabarty responds to his critics, this book globalizes European thought by exploring how it may be renewed both for and from the margins.
Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of "Rethinking Working-Class History: Bengal 1890-1940".
