Post by Tanzoria on May 11, 2023 1:39:39 GMT -5
that the swirling currents of globalization had brought into the ordinary lives of middleclass Indians like me, I was at this time working as a historian and social theorist at the University of Melbourne. Even after my move to
the University of Chicago in 1995, I remained preoccupied with questions that marked popular struggles in my youth, questions of rights,
of modernity and freedom, and of a transition to a world more rational and democratic than the ones I had known. My book Provincializing
Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2000) was a product
of these years in which I attempted, through a postcolonial frame, to
develop means for understanding what anticolonial and modernizing
elites in the formerly colonized countries did and could do, working
sometimes at the limits of the imperial European intellectual legacies
they inevitably inherited. This was what I could bring to the discussion
of the story of the globe that European empires, anticolonial modernizers, and global capital had fashioned together, a theme that dominated
history and other interpretive disciplines in the final decades of the last
century and into this one
the University of Chicago in 1995, I remained preoccupied with questions that marked popular struggles in my youth, questions of rights,
of modernity and freedom, and of a transition to a world more rational and democratic than the ones I had known. My book Provincializing
Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2000) was a product
of these years in which I attempted, through a postcolonial frame, to
develop means for understanding what anticolonial and modernizing
elites in the formerly colonized countries did and could do, working
sometimes at the limits of the imperial European intellectual legacies
they inevitably inherited. This was what I could bring to the discussion
of the story of the globe that European empires, anticolonial modernizers, and global capital had fashioned together, a theme that dominated
history and other interpretive disciplines in the final decades of the last
century and into this one
