Discipline and authority: Some notes on future histories and epistemologies of India

Futures

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 985-1000

  Lal, Vinay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0042096285     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0016-3287(97)00079-7     Document Type: Article

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2. The narrative of 'German exceptionalism', which persists in treating Germany as the perennially sick man of Europe, can ironically be turned to yield a rather different political argument. What is exceptional about Germany is only that the Germans dared to extend the theory of the master-race, which European powers unabashedly deployed to colonize and brutalize the rest of the world, to other Europeans; and so the dominion that European powers forcibly exercised over others variously termed as savages, primitives, brutes, uncivilized, or underdeveloped, was sought to be extended over white people themselves by the Germans. It is in this manner that the Germans broke one kind of barrier, carrying into the heart of Western civilization the violence that had been almost routinely visited upon native peoples in the Americas, Australasia, and Africa.
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12. For a detailed discussion of how history came to the forefront in the dispute over the mosque, see Lal, V., The discourse of history and the crisis at Ayodhya: reflections on the production of knowledge, freedom, and the future of India, Emergences, 1993-1994, 5-6, 4-44.
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16. For a detailed consideration of the ahistoricism of the Indian sensibility, see Lal, V., History and the possibilities of emancipation: some lessons from India, Journal of the Indian Council for Philosophical Research, Special Issue: Historiography of Civilizations, 1996, June, 95-137.
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22. Some will point to the presence of Salman Rushdie, V. S. Naipaul, Amitav Ghosh, Hanif Kureishi, Anita Desai, and other writers in the West, or to the films of Kureishi, Mira Nair, Gurinder Chadha, Srinivas Krishnan, and Pratibha Parmar, or to the emergence of eclectic forms of music (bhangra rap in Britain, classical fusion in the United States), as indicative of the great reservoir of South Asian talent in the West. Though their achievements are quite extraordinary in some respects, they have conferred what can at best be considered mixed blessings.
23. The most notable exception to this is, of course, the migration of Indians to the West Coast of the United States and Canada 100 years ago. A succinct account of the Indian presence in the United States is furnished in Daniels, R., History of Indian Immigration to the United States, Asia Society, New York, 1989. There were a miniscule number of Indians in Britain even as far back as 1700: see Visram, R., Ayahs, Lascars, and Princes: Indians in Britain 1700-1947, Pluto Press, London, 1986.
24. The most notable exception to this is, of course, the migration of Indians to the West Coast of the United States and Canada 100 years ago. A succinct account of the Indian presence in the United States is furnished in Daniels, R., History of Indian Immigration to the United States, Asia Society, New York, 1989. There were a miniscule number of Indians in Britain even as far back as 1700: see Visram, R., Ayahs, Lascars, and Princes: Indians in Britain 1700-1947, Pluto Press, London, 1986.
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