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

A proliferation of scholarly works offering a variety of modernization experiences facilitated an understanding of social protests in non-western settings. Focusing on the initial stages of modern social movements in Iran and the Ottoman Empire, this study makes a comparative analysis of the tobacco protests at the tu…

• EMİNE TUTKU VARDAĞLI

Joya Chatterji, The Spoils of Partition: Bengal and India, 1947–1967 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007) ISBN 978-0-521-87536-3, xvi + 342 pp., $A160. Neeti Nair, Changing Homelands: Hind...

• IRFAN AHMAD

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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Abstract If we assume the premise of this forum that we are indeed moving from a Transatlantic to an Afro-Eurasian World, it still remains to be seen what role ‘Asia’ will play in shaping that world. And what one imagines ‘Asia’ can do has much to do with what one imagines ‘Asia’ to be. In this research note, I argue…

• AYŞE ZARAKOL JAJICH

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…

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