Postcolonial Theory And The Making Of Hindu Nationalism The Wages Of Unreason
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Postcolonial Theory and the Making of Hindu Nationalism
This book tells the story of two strange bedfellows, the Postcolonial Left and the Hindu Right. It argues that the Postcolonial Left’s relentless attacks on the “epistemic violence” of Western norms of rationality and modernity are providing the conceptual vocabulary for the Hindu Right’s project of “decolonizing the Hindu mind.” The postcolonial project of “provincializing Europe” is widely shared by the Hindu Right, and harks back to the Hindu revivalist movements of the nineteenth century. This book argues that postcolonial thought in India bears a strong family resemblance, in context and content, with the “conservative revolution” that brought down the Weimar Repbulic in Germany before the Nazi takeover. Both an intellectual history of India through the last half-century and a critical engagement with postcolonial theory, this book will be of interest to scholars of South Asia and the humanities and social sciences at large.
Postcolonial Theory and the Making of Hindu Nationalism
"This book tells the story of the ominous synergy that has developed in recent years between the Postcolonial Left and the Hindu Right. It argues that the Postcolonial Left's relentless attacks on the "epistemic violence" of Western norms of rationality and modernity are providing the conceptual vocabulary for the Hindu Right's project of "decolonizing the Hindu mind." The postcolonial project of creating an alternative modernity free from the "imperialism" of Eurocentric concepts harks back to the late 19th century when Indian nationalists first began to "provincialize" Europe and is widely shared by the contemporary Hindu Right. This book shows that far from an avant-garde progressive movement, postcolonialism in India bears a strong family resemblance, in context and content, with "conservative revolutions" of the kind that brought down the Weimar Republic and prepared the grounds for the Nazi takeover. Both an intellectual history of India through the last half-century and a critical engagement with postcolonial theory, this book will be of interest to scholars of South Asia and the humanities and social sciences at large"-- Provided by publisher.
Constructing Post-Colonial India
An interdisciplinary and engaging book which looks at the nature of Indian society since Independence and unpacks what post-colonialism means to Indian citizens. Using the case study of the Doon School, a famous boarding school for boys, and one of the leading educational institutions in India, the author argues that to be post-colonial in India is to be modern, rational, secular and urban. In placing post-colonialism in this concrete social context, and analysing how it is constructed, the author renders a complex and often rather abstract subject accessible.