I thank Dr. Markus Daechsel for his thoughtful and finely tuned reading of my book. Dr. Daechsel offers a generous and detailed engagement with my work as well as offers two particular points of departure, regarding sympathy with one’s historical subjects and the status of regional studies in South Asian history. Dr. Daechsel argues thatContinue reading “Response to Review of Recasting the Region: Language, Culture and Islam in Colonial Bengal”
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The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power
Neilesh Bose and Partha Chatterjee discuss the latter’s latest challenge to conventional truisms of imperial history, nationalist scholarship, and liberal visions of globalization.