Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture
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...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Princeton
Princeton University Press
2009
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| In: | Year: 2009 |
| Further subjects: | B
Jews ; Europe ; Identity ; History
B Jews in literature B Muslims in literature B Secularism ; India ; History B India ; Colonial influence B Electronic books B Nationalism ; India ; History B Liberalism ; Europe ; History |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: Enlightenment in the Colony : The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture: |
| Summary: | 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 the Hindu-Muslim conflict in India as a colonial variation of what he calls "the exemplary crisis of minority"--Jewishness in Europe. He shows how the emergence of this conflict in the late nineteenth century represented an early instance of the reinscription of the "Jewish question" in a non-Western society |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (343 p) |
| ISBN: | 069105732X |