Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture

Enlightenment in the Colony opens up the history of the "Jewish question" for the first time to a broader discussion--one of the social exclusion of religious and cultural minorities in modern times, and in particular the crisis of Muslim identity in modern India. Aamir Mufti identifies...

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Main Author: Mufti, Aamir R. (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Princeton Princeton University Press 2009
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Further subjects:B Jews ; Europe ; Identity ; History
B Jews in literature
B Muslims in literature
B Secularism ; India ; History
B India ; Colonial influence
B Electronic books
B Nationalism ; India ; History
B Liberalism ; Europe ; History
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505 8 0 |a Contents; A Note on Translation and Transliteration; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Prologue: Towards a Genealogy of Postcolonial Secularism; Part I: Emergence: Europe and Its Others; Chapter One: Jewishness as Minority Emergence of a European Problematic; Chapter Two: Inscriptions of Minority in British Late Imperial Culture From Daniel Deronda to A Passage to India; Part II: Displacements: On the Verge of India; Chapter Three: Jawaharlal Nehru and Abul Kalam Azad Discovering India; Chapter Four: Saadat Hasan Manto A Greater Story Writer Than God 
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