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...
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...
