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In the last decade, there has been an increasing internationalisation in the structure of research and academic institutions in the west. This has been accompanied by much greater visibility for Third World scholars in locations within the ‘developed’ world. The greater presence of these scholars in Western institutions has helped alter the international division of social science labour. This book, comprising a blend of autobiography and intellectual history ...
Relations between Hindus and Muslims are a matter of vital concern in contemporary India. Islam and Hinduism, frequently reduced to stereotypes, is not always accompanied by a thorough consideration of the complexity of the mutual relations of attraction and repulsion which ‘the people of the Book’ and various Hindu castes have maintained for more than a thousand years. Having evoked the historical and social circumstances of the implantation of Islam in ...