Third World Humanities from South Asian Perspectives

This essay is a thematic and methodological introduction to the Bengali Intellectuals Oral History Project. This interpretive oral history collection reckons with and complicates the over-representation of Bengalis in the study of South Asian intellectual history. As editors, we propose a new framework to study intellectual life in the period of decolonisation—the study of Third World humanities from South Asian perspectives. We situate West Bengal and Bangladesh as important, but obviously not exclusive, vantage points from which to explore formations of Third World thought from the 1940s to the 1980s. Methods in oral history collecting and curation help us to comprehend the intelligibility of Third World humanities expressed from regionally grounded, and diasporically mobile, South Asian perspectives

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