Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse?"A powerful and impassioned intervention in our thinking about nationalism and colonialism. Arguing that nationalism in the context of India was neither tragedy nor farce, Chatterjee brilliantly demonstrates how the derivative character of colonial discourse had produced both the power as well as the predicament of nationalism in the twentieth century. This book provides critical insight into the character of the post-colonial condition"--from back cover. |
Contents
The Thematic and the Problematic | 36 |
Culture and Power in the Thought | 54 |
Gandhi and the Critique of Civil | 85 |
Nehru and the Passive Revolution | 131 |
The Cunning of Reason | 167 |
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