![]() | Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture Subjects: Secularism -- India -- History; Nationalism -- India -- History; India -- Colonial influence; Muslims in literature; Jews in literature; Jews -- Europe -- Identity -- History; Liberalism -- Europe -- History; Enlightenment in the Colony opens up the history of the "Jewish question" for the first time to a broader discussion--one of the social exclusion of religious and cultural minorities in modern times, and in particular the crisis of Muslim identity in modern India. Aamir R. Mufti is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the coeditor of Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives and the editor of "Critical Secularism," a special issue of the journal boundary 2 . |
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