Fluid Temporalities: Saiyid Ahmad Khan and the Concept of Modernity

This article investigates the language the great Indian Muslim reformer of the nineteenth century, Saiyid Ahmad Khan, uses to conceive of temporalities. The attention is directed toward the way he imagined the relationship between the present and the past, on the one hand, and the future, on the oth...

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Published in:History and theory
Main Author: Pernau, Margrit (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley 2019
In: History and theory
Further subjects:B history of concepts
B South Asian history
B Modernity
B Urdu
B history of temporality
B Koselleck
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