Acknowledgments  vii

Introduction / Vasant Kaiwar and Sucheta Mazumdar  1

The Aryan Model of History and the Oriental Renaissance: The Politics of Identity in an Age of Revolutions, Colonialism, and Nationalism / Vasant Kaiwar  13

Aryanizing Projects, African Collaborators," and Colonial Transcripts / Andrew E. Barnes  62

Orientalism's Genesis Amnesia / Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi  98

Coining Words: Language and Politics in Late Colonial Tamilnadu / A. R. Venkatachalapathy  126

An Anticolonial International?: Indians, India, and Africans in British Central Africa / Michael O. West  146

The Moment of Manoeuvre": Race," Ethnicity, and Nation in Postapartheid South Africa / Neville Alexander  180

Cultural Nationalism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Case of Iran / Minoo Moallem  196

The Politics of Religion and National Origin: Rediscovering Hindu Indian Identity in the United States / Sucheta Mazumdar  223

Race, Orient, Nation in the Time-Space of Modernity / Vasant Kaiwar and Sucheta Mazumdar  261

Select Bibliography  299

Contributors  325

Index  329

Sucheta Mazumdar

Vasant Kaiwar

Andrew E. Barnes

Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi

A. R. Venkatachalapathy

Michael O. West

Neville Alexander

Minoo Moallem

"Given the many political contexts in which critiques of 'globalization' are being mobilized, Antimonies of Modernity offers a timely intervention. This collection of essays . . . provides an essential rethinking and historicization of a globalized sense of modernity through the lenses of colonialism, race, Orientalism, and nation."—Svati P. Shah, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History

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"Given the many political contexts in which critiques of 'globalization' are being mobilized, Antimonies of Modernity offers a timely intervention. This collection of essays . . . provides an essential rethinking and historicization of a globalized sense of modernity through the lenses of colonialism, race, Orientalism, and nation."—Svati P. Shah, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History

"The publication of this book is timely for those seeking to understand what it means to be modern, as well as those trying to place the project of Al-Qaeeda and the 'War against Terror' in context. . . . [E]xcellent."—Goolam Vahed, H-SAfrica

"This is an interesting and thoughtful collection. . . . Rather than confining themselves to a particular area or ethnic group, the editors have taken an approach that thinks outside the perimeters of the established frameworks of national and regional studies. In doing so they provide us with a very worthwhile addition to the field."—Nayantara Pothen, Asian Studies Review

“Antinomies of Modernity is a fundamental contribution to scholarship decentering Eurocentric epistemic perspectives. Vasant Kaiwar and Sucheta Mazumdar have collected impressive essays, including their own articles and introduction, showing the epistemic potential of ‘antinomies of modernity’ in South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. This collection makes a signal contribution toward a paradigm showing us the way beyond postmodernism and postcolonialism.“—Walter D. Mignolo, Duke University

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