Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture

Main description: 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 M...

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Main Author: Mufti, Aamir R. (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press 2007
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