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“... part botanical garden, part menagerie, part paradise. Could the flâneur exist in that dreamscape? Dipesh Chakrabarty, the author of Provincialising Europe, whose meditations on the limits of Western notions of modernity and history are impelled by Benjamin but who also has the word ‘postcolonial’ in his subtitle, was born in Calcutta. His inquiry is ...”

“... order given to the Antillean people: to keep quiet’.In an essay from 2018, the historian Dipesh Chakrabarty similarly placed Césaire alongside other leaders – including Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Nehru and Nasser – who were ‘pedagogic in their relationship to their respective populations’. These figures were united by their commitment to ...”

“... thereby turn it into a province of European learning. This reservation has been echoed by others. Dipesh Chakrabarty, the author of Provincialising Europe, says something similar while enquiring into the reasons he finds it possible to engage in serious intellectual commerce with European philosophers, but not with Indian ones going back to ...”