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Ortner, Nicholas B. Dirks, Geoff Eley  \nA LIST OF TITLES  \nIN THIS SERIES APPEARS  \nAT THE BACK OF  \nTHE BOOK  \nPOSTCOLONIAL THOUGHT AND HISTORICAL DIFFERENCE  \nDipesh Chakrabarty  \nCopyright 􀀁 2000 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 3 Market Place, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1SY All Rights Reserved.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nChakrabarty, Dipesh.  \nProvincializing Europe : postcolonial thought and historical difference / Dipesh Chakrabarty.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).—(Princeton studies in culture/power/history) Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 0-691-04908-4 (alk. paper)—ISBN 0-691-04909-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)  \n1. Historiography—Europe. 2. Europe—History—Philosophy.  \n3. Eurocentrism. 4. India—Historiography. 5. Decolonization.  \nI. Title. II. Series.  \nD13 .5. E85 C43 2000  \n901—dc21 99-087722  \nThis book has been composed in Sabon  \nThe paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (R1997) (Permanence of Paper)  \n[www.pup.princeton.edu](www.pup.princeton.edu)  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \n1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2  \n1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 (Pbk)  \nDisclaimer:  \nSome images in the original version of this book are not available for inclusion in the eBook.  \nFor Anne, Fiona, Robin Debi, Gautam, Shiloo  \nIN FRIENDSHIP  \nThis page intentionally left blank  \nAcknowledgments ix Introduction: The Idea of Provincializing Europe 3  \nPART ONE: HISTORICISM AND THE  \nNARRATION OF MODERNITY  \nChapter 1. Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History 27  \nChapter 2. The Two Histories of Capital 47  \nChapter 3. Translating Life-Worlds into Labor and History 72  \nChapter 4. Minority Histories, Subaltern Pasts 97  \nPART TWO: HISTORIES OF BELONGING  \nChapter 5. Domestic Cruelty and the Birth of the Subject 117  \nChapter 6. Nation and Imagination 149  \nChapter 7. Adda: A History of Sociality 180  \nChapter 8. Family, Fraternity, and Salaried Labor 214  \nEpilogue. Reason and the Critique of Historicism 237  \nNotes 257  \nIndex 299  \nThis page intentionally left blank  \n  Acknowledgments    \nARJUN APPADURAI, Homi Bhabha, Gautam Bhadra, Carol Breckenridge, Faisal Devji, Simon During, Leela Gandhi, Anne Hardgrove, Pradeep Jeganathan, David Lloyd, Lisa Lowe, Uday Mehta, Meaghan Morris, Stephen Muecke, Rajyashree Pandey, Sheldon Pollock, Sanjay Seth, Ajay Skaria, and Kamala Visweswaran nurtured this book by providing me with an affectionate, critical, and constantly available conversational community. Ranajit Guha has been always there, a teacher, engaged critic, well-wisher, and friend at the same time. By his own example, Asok Sen demonstrated how to combine criticism, open-mindedness, and encouragement in the right doses. Tom Laqueur once read some of the chapters in draft and gave me characteristically friendly and honest criticism. Ron Inden, Steve Collins, C. M. Naim, Clinton Seely, Norman Cutler, James Chandler, Loren Kruger, Miriam Hansen, John Kelly—all colleagues atthe University of Chicago—have helped by responding, critically or otherwise, to aspects of this project. And Philip Gossett has been a wonderfully supportive dean. My most grateful thanks go to them all.  \nThrough correspondence and conversations, friends in different parts of the world have often helped me find my own perspectives. I am acutely aware of how much I owe to them individually but for reasons of space, I can only mention some of them by name. I am grateful to the scholars around the journals Scrutiny 2 in South Africa (especially Leon de Cock), Historia y Grafia in Mexico, Public Culture in the United States, Postcolonial Studies in Australia, the “postcolonial geographies” group in the United Kingdom, and Shiso in Japan for the interest they have taken in this work. One privilege I have enjoyed over the yea","cbCaiqAeSgK0pAzo","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqAeSgK0pAzo","pdf",2524305,318,"English","# Introduction: The Idea of Provincializing Europe\n# PART ONE: HISTORICISM AND THE NARRATION OF MODERNITY\n## Chapter 1. Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History\n## Chapter 2. The Two Histories of Capital\n## Chapter 3. Translating Life-Worlds into Labor and History\n## Chapter 4. Minority Histories, Subaltern Pasts\n# PART TWO: HISTORIES OF BELONGING\n## Chapter 5. Domestic Cruelty and the Birth of the Subject\n## Chapter 6. Nation and Imagination\n## Chapter 7. Adda: A History of Sociality\n## Chapter 8. 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