Politics of Time seeks to understand what it meant for a colonial modern subject to write and make history. It investigates how time, as a concept and as an experience, is deployed by history to produce political possibilities for the future. At one level, it analyses the making of the ‘historical’ —as discipline, practice, and imagination —in a colonial society. At another, it examines the making of a people into a ‘tribe’—i.e., into an allegedly ...
