Politics of Time
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
| ISBN-13 | 9780195681567 |
| Open Library | OL9189679W |
| Total publications | 4 |
| Coverage period | 2006 - 2006 |
| Language | EN |
Through its vision, arguments, suggestive insights and the variety of materials it presents, this book rethinks persuasive understandings of history, history writing, modernity colonialism, and the 'primitives'
Conclusion
This chapter tries to clarify the unfinished nature of both the work of colonial modernity and its critique. As the nation seeks to ‘liberalize’ its economy and mirror the trajectory of global capital, it claims the purity and righteousness of cultural conservatism. It is noted that by the 1930s, the colonized, by way of reclaiming ‘modern’ knowledge-disciplines from the colonizer, hinted at his/her own marginality and lateness in the present. Th…
Debt, Time, and Extravagance
This chapter illustrates how Santals and Paharias were physically and territorially fenced in by the colonial rulers, so that they could no longer interact directly with the rest of the indigenous society. It also investigates the emergence of indebtedness as the definitional sign of the ‘primitive’ in colonial Bengal. The colonial authorities argued that Paharias did not exhibit the intrinsic ‘primordiality’ of the Santals. Santals qualified to …
Time, Space, and the ‘Primitive Within’
This chapter covers the relationship between the project of imagining the nation as continuous history and the experiences of the discontinuous, anomic everyday of late nineteenth-century Bengal. Bengali history-writing came to be forged in the nineteenth century through inversion as the primary mode of opposition to colonialism. In nineteenth-century Bengali imagination, the ‘primitive within’ became the clue that could account for the defeat an…
Politics of Time
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Conclusion
This chapter tries to clarify the unfinished nature of both the work of colonial modernity and its critique. As the nation seeks to ‘liberalize’ its economy and mirror the trajectory of global capital, it claims the purity and righteousness of cultural conservatism. It is noted that by the 1930s, the colonized, by way of reclaiming ‘modern’ knowledge-disciplines from the colonizer, hinted at his/her own marginality and lateness in the present. Th…
Debt, Time, and Extravagance
This chapter illustrates how Santals and Paharias were physically and territorially fenced in by the colonial rulers, so that they could no longer interact directly with the rest of the indigenous society. It also investigates the emergence of indebtedness as the definitional sign of the ‘primitive’ in colonial Bengal. The colonial authorities argued that Paharias did not exhibit the intrinsic ‘primordiality’ of the Santals. Santals qualified to …
Time, Space, and the ‘Primitive Within’
This chapter covers the relationship between the project of imagining the nation as continuous history and the experiences of the discontinuous, anomic everyday of late nineteenth-century Bengal. Bengali history-writing came to be forged in the nineteenth century through inversion as the primary mode of opposition to colonialism. In nineteenth-century Bengali imagination, the ‘primitive within’ became the clue that could account for the defeat an…
Politics of Time