Enlightenment in the Colony : : The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture / / Aamir R. Mufti.

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 th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2007
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.) :; 1 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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
  • Chapter Two. Inscriptions of Minority in British Late Imperial Culture
  • Part II. Displacements: On the Verge of India
  • Chapter Three. Jawaharlal Nehru and Abul Kalam Azad
  • Chapter Four. Saadat Hasan Manto
  • Chapter Five. Faiz Ahmed Faiz
  • Epilogue. In My Beginning Is My End
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index