Description: This book transcends the sometimes narrow boundaries of the debates over modernities within the established academic disciplines and seeks to turn the unavoidable friction brought about by this interdisciplinary setting into most original and insightful scholarship.
Brief description: SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM is Professor and Doshi Chair of Indian history at UCLA, USA.
Review Quotes:
"In the current global conjuncture, claims on modernity are proliferating, and we witness increasingly contested debates about early and multiple modernities, and about visions of development outside the frame of Euro-American epistemologies. In this anthology, a group of distinguished scholars offers a wealth of insights and critical perspectives, aiming both at assessing the meaning of these interventions, and to reconfigure the notion of "modernity" for our times." --Sebastian Conrad, Freie Universität Berlin
"In this interdisciplinary and international collection of essays, delimiting modernities becomes a twofold project: on the one hand, consolidating as well as complicating the use of a pluralized notion of modernity; on the other hand, further provincializing the Eurocentric conceptual history of modernity in ways that reflect ongoing global assymmetries of power. The result is a far-reaching exploration of a timely subject by some of the best scholars in the field" --Manuela Boatca, professor of sociology, Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg, author, Global Inequalities Beyond Occidentalism