Why has postcolonial theory forgotten India's Islamic past? Selected writings of Raja Rammohun Roy (1772-1833).: Recuperating a Hindu-Islamic metissag

by Raja Rammohun Roy

Postcolonial theory assumes that European colonization in the last two centuries can be understood within binaries of: colonized-ruler, center-periphery, hegemonic-dominant/ margins, and that these can be the only referential frameworks within which the engagement between the colonial powers and the colonies can be examined. In this process, we tend to erase the pre-colonial pasts, and the heterogeneity which would have been a norm within the colonial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9384281107
• ISBN13: 9789384281106
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Lies and Big Feet
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"