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Author:   Saurabh Dube
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge India
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.970kg
ISBN:  

9780415602891

ISBN 10:   0415602890
Pages:   504
Publication Date:   13 August 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Modernity and its Enchantments: An Introduction Effects: Colony and Nation 2. North Atlantic Universals: Analytical Fictions, 1492–1945 3. Coloniality at Large: Time and the Colonial Difference 4. The Space of Empire and the Territory of Nations 5. Sanitizing Modernity: Imperial Hygiene, Obscenity, and Moral Regulation in Colonial India 6. Conversion to Translation: Colonial Registers of a Vernacular Christianity 7. The Moment of Criticism in Indian Nationalist Thought: Ramchandra Shukla and the Poetics of a Hindi Responsibility 8. Gandhi’s Politics: Liberalism and the Question of the Ashram 9. Illiberal Islam 10. Legacies of Bandung: Decolonization and the Politics of Culture Affects: The Global and the Vernacular 11. Affect: What is it Good for? 12. The Class Consciousness of Frequent Travelers Towards a Critique of Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism 13. The Absent Presence: Discourses of Crypto-Colonialism 14. The Martyrdom of Mosques: Imagery and Iconoclasm in Modern Pakistan 15. Mental Illness and the Urban Poor: Psychiatric Institutions and the Singularity of Lives 16. The Time of Slavery 17. Alien-Nation: Zombies, Immigrants, and Millennial Capitalism 18. The Beautiful Expanding Future of Poverty: Popular Economics as Psychological Defence

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Saurabh Dube is Professor of History at the Center for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de Mexico.

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