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Provincialising Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference
by Dipesh Chakrabarty.
Princeton, 320 pp., £42.95, October 2000,0 691 04908 4 Show More
by Dipesh Chakrabarty.
Princeton, 320 pp., £42.95, October 2000,
“... 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 ... ”