The Thought of Nirad C. Chaudhuri

Name: The Thought of Nirad C. Chaudhuri
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Author: Ian Almond
ISBN: 9781107476431

Islam, Empire and Loss

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

AvIan Almond

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In this critical examination of the famous South Asian thinker Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897-1999), a notorious Anglophile and defender of Empire, Ian Almond analyses the factors that played a role in the evolution of his thought. Almond explores how Empire creates 'native informants', enabling local subjects to alienate themselves from and even abhor their own cultures. Through analysis of Chaudhuri's views on Islam, his use of the archive, moments of melancholy and loss in his writing, and his opinions on empire, Almond dissects the constitution of an Indian writer and locates the precise ways in which Chaudhuri was able to produce the kind of discourses he did, exploring how conservative, pro-Western intellectuals are formed in postcolonial environments. A strong comparative element places Chaudhuri's views in the context of conservative intellectuals from Latin America, the Middle East and South Asia, concluding with a consideration of present-day 'native informants' from these regions.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-02-08
Mått154 x 230 x 13 mm
Vikt320 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor199
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781107476431

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Ian Almond is Professor of World Literature at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University in Qatar. A British academic who has lived in India, Turkey, Italy, Germany, Qatar and the US, he is the author of five books and over forty articles. He specialises in comparative world literature, with a tri-continental emphasis on Mexico, Bengal and Turkey. His books have been translated into eight languages, including Arabic, Russian, Turkish, Korean, Serbo-Croat, Persian and Indonesian.

'Cultural and geographical deracination decisively shaped the thought of the modern Asian intelligentsia. In Ian Almond's subtle portrait of an intractably conservative, even reactionary, Indian intellectual, we are brought closer to the complex process that produces the native informant as well as the anti-Western radical.' Pankaj Mishra, author of From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt against the West and the Remaking of Asia