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  | | The Calling of History(1st Edition) Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth by Dipesh Chakrabarty Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2015 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10045-6, ISBN: 0-226-10045-6 "Features a leading scholar in early twentieth-century India, Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1870-1958) was knighted in 1929 and became the first Indian historian to gain honorary membership in the American Historical Association. By the end of his lifetime, however, he had been marginalized by the Indian history establishment, as postcolonial historians embraced alternative approaches in the name of democracy and anti-colonialism. The Calling of ..." |
 | | Provincializing Europe(Updated) Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (New Edition) (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History) by Dipesh Chakrabarty Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2007 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-13001-9, ISBN: 0-691-13001-9 " First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries. This imaginary Europe, Dipesh Chakrabarty argues, is built into the social sciences. The very idea of historicizing carries with it some peculiarly European assumptions about disenchanted s ..." |
 | | Habitations of Modernity(1st Edition) Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Homi K. Bhabha Paperback, 180 Pages, Published 2002 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10039-5, ISBN: 0-226-10039-1 "In Habitations of Modernity, Dipesh Chakrabarty explores the complexities of modernism in India and seeks principles of humaneness grounded in everyday life that may elude grand political theories. The questions that motivate Chakrabarty are shared by all postcolonial historians and anthropologists; How do we think about the legacy of the European Enlightenment in lands far from Europe in geography or history? How can we envision ways o ..." |
 | | Rethinking Working-Class History by Dipesh Chakrabarty Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2000 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-07030-8, ISBN: 0-691-07030-X "Dipesh Chakrabarty combines a history of the jute-mill workers of Calcutta with a fresh look at labor history in Marxist scholarship. Opposing a reductionist view of culture and consciousness, he examines the milieu of the jute-mill workers and the way it influenced their capacity for class solidarity and "revolutionary" action from 1890 to 1940. Around and within this empirical core is built his critique of emancipatory narratives and ..." |
 | | The Climate of History in a Planetary Age(First Edition) (Paperback) by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Bruno Latour Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 2021 by The University Of Chicago Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73286-2, ISBN: 0-226-73286-X "The book concludes with a conversation between Chakrabarty and the French anthropologist Bruno Latour. Few works are as likely to shape our understanding of the human condition as we open ourselves to the implications of the Anthropocene"--" |
 | | Some Aspects of Labour History of Bengal in the Nineteenth Century Two Views (Social Science Acrosss Disciplines) by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Ranajit Dasgupta, Rosinka Chaudhuri, University Of Chicago Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2019 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-948667-0, ISBN: 0-19-948667-0 "Part of the 'Occasional Papers' series of CSSSC, this essay is a brief, and sharply posed, exchange between Dipesh Chakrabarty and Ranajit Das Gupta on working class consciousness in Bengal. it posits that this consciousness is not a mechanical outcome of the capitalist mode of production, it is not a thing but a process; that even failure must be taken on board in order to flesh out that process; that not only was the working class pre ..." |
 | | Historical Teleologies in the Modern World(Illustrated) (Europe’s Legacy in the Modern World) by Henning Truper, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Martti Koskenniemi, Bo Stråth Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2015 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-4742-2106-1, ISBN: 1-4742-2106-8 ""Historical Teleologies in the Modern World" tracks the fragmentation and proliferation of teleological understandings of history - the notion that history had to be explained as a goal-directed process - in Europe and beyond throughout the 19th and into the 20th century. Historical teleologies have profoundly informed a variety of other disciplines, including modern philosophy, natural history, literature, humanitarian and religious ph ..." |
 | | Provincializing Europe(1st Edition) Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference by Dipesh Chakrabarty Paperback, 301 Pages, Published 2000 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-04909-0, ISBN: 0-691-04909-2 " Can European thought be dislodged from the center of the practice of history in a non-European place? What problems arise when we translate cultural practices into the categories of social science? Provincializing Europe is one of the first book-length treatments on how postcolonial thinking impacts on the social sciences. This book explores, through a series of linked essays, the problems of thought that present themselves when we t ..." |
 | | Historical Teleologies in the Modern World (Europe’s Legacy in the Modern World) by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Henning Trüper, Martti Koskenniemi, Bo Stråth, Bloomsbury Academic Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2015 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-4742-2107-8, ISBN: 1-4742-2107-6 "Historical Teleologies in the Modern World tracks the fragmentation and proliferation of teleological understandings of history - the notion that history had to be explained as a goal-directed process - in Europe and beyond throughout the 19th and into the 20th century. Historical teleologies have profoundly informed a variety of other disciplines, including modern philosophy, natural history, literature, humanitarian and religious phil ..." |
 | | Subaltern Studies(Updated) Writings on South Asian History and Society, Vol. 9 by Shahid Amin, Dipesh Chakrabarty Paperback, 284 Pages, Published 1997 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-564334-3, ISBN: 0-19-564334-8 "VrvEK Dhareshwar is Fellow at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Kancha Ilaih is Reader in Political Science, Osmania University, Hyderabad. His most recent publication is Why I am not a Hindu (1996). DaviD LloyD is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Anomalous States: Irish Writing and the Post- colonial Moment (1993) and co-editor with Lisa Lowe of World's Aligned ..." |
 | | Subaltern Studies(1st Edition) Writings on South Asian History and Society, Vol. 9 (v. 9) by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Shahid Amin, Dipesh Amin Chakrabarty, Shahid M.. Amin Hardcover, 296 Pages, Published 1997 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-563865-3, ISBN: 0-19-563865-4 "This disturbing question has indeed been asked. It has been asked by some of the women who had themselves been active in the uprising. Heard first in a series of interviews it has been recorded as material for a feminist reading of that history by other women of a younger generation. Two amongst the latter, Vasantha Kannabiran and K. Lalita have illuminated for us some of the implications of this question in their essay 'That Magic ..." |
 | | Habitations of Modernity(2nd Edition) Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Homi K. Bhabha Hardcover, 180 Pages, Published 2002 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10038-8, ISBN: 0-226-10038-3 "In Habitations of Modernity, Dipesh Chakrabarty explores the complexities of modernism in India and seeks principles of humaneness grounded in everyday life that may elude grand political theories. The questions that motivate Chakrabarty are shared by all postcolonial historians and anthropologists; How do we think about the legacy of the European Enlightenment in lands far from Europe in geography or history? How can we envision ways o ..." |
 | | Cosmopolitanism (a Public Culture Book) by Carol Appadurai Breckenridge, Sheldon Pollock, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Homi K. Bhabha, Homi I. Bhabha Paperback, 260 Pages, Published 2002 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-2899-5, ISBN: 0-8223-2899-2 "As the final installment of "Public Culture'"s Millennial Quartet, "Cosmopolitanism" assesses the pasts and possible futures of cosmopolitanism--or ways of thinking, feeling, and acting beyond one's particular society. With contributions from distinguished scholars in disciplines such as literary studies, art history, South Asian studies, and anthropology, this volume recenters the history and theory of translocal political aspirations ..." |
 | | Rethinking Working-Class History Bengal, 1890-1940 by Dipesh Chakrabarty ISBN-13: 978-0-608-06362-1, ISBN: 0-608-06362-2 |
 | | The Calling of History Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth (Hardback) by Dipesh Chakrabarty Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2015 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10044-9, ISBN: 0-226-10044-8 "A leading scholar in early twentieth-century India, Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1870 1958) was knighted in 1929 and became the first Indian historian to gain honorary membership in the American Historical Association. By the end of his lifetime, however, he had been marginalized by the Indian history establishment, as postcolonial historians embraced alternative approaches in the name of democracy and anti-colonialism. "The Calling of History" ..." |
 | | Provincializing Europe by Dipesh Chakrabarty Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2000 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-04908-3, ISBN: 0-691-04908-4 " Can European thought be dislodged from the center of the practice of history in a non-European place? What problems arise when we translate cultural practices into the categories of social science? Provincializing Europe is one of the first book-length treatments on how postcolonial thinking impacts on the social sciences. This book explores, through a series of linked essays, the problems of thought that present themselves when we t ..." |
 | | The Ambiguous Allure of the West(1st Edition) Traces of the Colonial in Thailand by Rachel V. Harrison, Peter A. Jackson, Dipesh Chakrabarty Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2010 by Southeast Asia Program Publications ISBN-13: 978-0-87727-608-1, ISBN: 0-87727-608-0 "The Ambiguous Allure of the West examines the impact of Western imperialism on Thai cultural development from the 1850s to the present and highlights the value of postcolonial analysis for studying the ambiguities, inventions, and accommodations with the West that continue to enrich Thai culture. Since the mid-nineteenth century, Thais have adopted and adapted aspects of Western culture and practice in an ongoing relationship that may b ..." |
 | | The Public Life of History (Public Culture: Winter 2008) by Bain Attwood, Claudio Lomnitz, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Neeladri Bhattacharya, Dr Faisal Devji, D.K. Chakrabarty, Claudio Lomnitz-Adler Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2008 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-6687-4, ISBN: 0-8223-6687-8 "This special issue of Public Culture explores the tension and the challenges raised by the interaction of history with the domains of public life, including politics, the law, and the media. It focuses specifically on situations where a social compact has been reshaped based on the revaluation of historical wounds such as those inflicted in South African apartheid and in the Holocaust. The politics of recognition has challenged historic ..." |
 | | From the Colonial to the Postcolonial India and Pakistan in Transition by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Rochona Majumdar, Andrew Sartori Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2007 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-567956-4, ISBN: 0-19-567956-3 "This volume addresses some of the key issues marking the process of decolonization in India and Pakistan. It looks at decolonization as a long-term process and highlights some of the historical complications involved in nations born under the aegis of the colonial rule evolving into postcolonial polities. It concentrates on particular aspects of the social and political processes involved in the transition from the colonial order to pos ..." |
 | | Postcolonial Economies(1st Edition) by Jane Pollard, Doctor Cheryl Mcewan, Doctor Alex Hughes, Christine Sylvester, Wendy Larner, Roger Lee, Dr. Patricia Noxolo, Alexandra Hughes, Eiman Zein-Elabdin, Nitasha Kaul, Hilary Lim, Doctor Cathy Mcilwaine, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Doctor Pat Noxolo Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 2011 by Zed Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84813-404-1, ISBN: 1-84813-404-5 "Postcolonial approaches to understanding economies are of increasing academic and political significance as questions about the nature of globalization, transnational flows of capital and workers, and the making and re-making of territorial borders assume center stage in debates about contemporary economies and policy. Despite the growing academic and political urgency in understanding how "other" cultures encounter "the West," economic ..." |
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