Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies

This essay proposes Hindu Orientalism as a central category of analysis across disciplines. It begins by demonstrating how the claim to decolonize India is in fact (re/neo)colonial in many ways as it recasts Western Orientalism in the catalogue of Hindu Orientalism to shape India as well as the world. To this end, it…

• IRFAN AHMAD

Bu çalışmanın zaman sınırlılığı 17. yüzyılın başlarında Babürlü Devleti’nin hükümdarı Cihangir Şah Dönemi’ne isabet etmektedir. Çalışmanın amacı ise, İngilizlerin Hind deniz ticaretine sahip olmak için Hindistan’da varlık gösterdiği ilk yıllarda, seyyah, tüccar ve elçiler aracılığı ile Hindistan’da tutunma çabalarının…

• CANAN KUŞ BÜYÜKTAŞ

From the late nineteenth century up to the end of World War I, approximately half a million people immigrated to the United States from the Greater Syria region of the Ottoman Empire to make money and improve their lives. This article aims to shed light on the history of the Ottoman-Syrian immigration to the United St…

• MUHAMMET KAZIM BAYCAR

Anti-fascist, anti-colonial, and anti-imperial struggles of the twentieth century provide important intellectual and political resources as we collectively seek to forge alternative futures in the face of our depleted political present. Setting out with this analytical and political concern, this article is interested…

• EMİNE ASLI ÇALKIVİK

Abstract This chapter makes a set of three interconnected arguments. The first argument, which critically binds the volume together, is that rather than seeing contemporary politics in terms of globalization eroding the nation state or its persistence regardless of globalization, what characterizes the world is the gl…

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This article scripts a genealogy of Indian sociology radically different from its regnant history. Its fundamental thesis is that Indian/Hindu nationalism and knowledge are entwined such that to view them separately is to understand neither. To substantiate this thesis, it focuses on the othering of Islam/Muslims. Far…

• IRFAN AHMAD

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Abstract This piece argues that a greater understanding of the role of regions in Russian history could lead to different ways of writing Russian history that need not center the state. By including a wider range of intellectual and political actors from the regions, as well as tracing the long connections between the…

• FİLİZ TUTKU AYDIN BEZİKOĞLU

Bâbürlüler, 1526-1858 yılları arasında Hindistan coğrafyasında hüküm sürmüş bir Türk-İslam Devletidir. Kuruluşundan itibaren tahakküm alanını daima genişleten Bâbürlüler, Evrengzîb Âlemgîr (ö. 1707) döneminde Alt Kıta’nın en kudretli siyasi teşekkülü haline geldi. Fakat Evrengzîb’in vefatı ile birlikte söz konusu siya…

• SALİH KALKAN

Abstract Drawing on a range of regional expertise and perspectives from international relations, political economy, political theory, and sociology, this collective discussion makes the following contributions to research on global reactionary politics and discussions of decolonization. First, we argue that the erosio…

• GÖRKEM ALTINÖRS

The property and production structure in the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza, and employment of Palestinians in the Israeli labour market is changing. The concept of internal colonialism offers a better understanding about the economic concerns of Israel on the occupied territories than imperialism or s…

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