China, India and alternative Asian modernities / edited by Sanjay Kumar, Satya P. Mohanty, Archana K...
China, India and alternative Asian modernities / edited by Sanjay Kumar, Satya P. Mohanty, Archana K...
China, India and alternative Asian modernities / edited by Sanjay Kumar, Satya P. Mohanty, Archana Kumar and Raj Kumar.
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
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G 2019/3185
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English
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xliv, 241 pages ; 23 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
European self-making and India's alternative modernities / Arjun Appadurai -- Circulatory and competitive histories / Prasenjit Duara -- Connected histories : the Asian roots of the scientific and industrial revolutions / Arun Bala -- Dominant and counter-imaginaries : analysing India's modernities...
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Publisher
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2019.
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"The conception of modernity as a moment of severance from a primitive past runs parallel to the conception of Europe as the 'locus of history.' The essays in this volume contest the temporal and spatial divisions--between Europe and the rest of the world; modernity and tradition; and between European rationality and Asia's excesses--which the conv...
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China, India and alternative Asian modernities / edited by Sanjay Kumar, Satya P. Mohanty, Archana Kumar and Raj Kumar.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2019/3185
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9781138339781 hardcover alkaline paper
1138339784 hardcover alkaline paper
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951
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991024249801802626
