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Recent attention to the urgency of economic and political cooperation between the Indian government and African states often termed south-south globalization suggests that the time has come for more critical histories of “Afro-Asian solidarity” than are presently available. That term, which gained currency at the famous meeting of over two dozen Third World representatives in Bandung, Indonesia, in 1955, refers to the story of affinities and exchanges ...
In this innovative study, Antoinette Burton investigates the colonial empire through the eyes of the three of its Indian subjects. The first of these, Pandita Ramabai, arrived in London in 1883 to seek medical education. She left in 1886, having resisted the Anglican Church's attempts to make her an Evangelical Missionary, and began a career as a celebrated social reformer. Cornelia Sorabji went to Oxford to study law and became one of the first Indian women to ...
This volume is designed to expand the agenda of postcolonial studies, assess the field’s past and present, and affect its future evolution. The editors ask scholars to consider the intellectual, political, and methodological practices that have shaped-and which should shape-postcolonial modes of thought. The effort is to reinvent and transform the field. For, having influenced perspectives and methods across disciplines, postcolonial studies is becoming ...