Antinomies of modernity : essays on race, orient, nation / Vasant Kaiwar and Sucheta Mazumdar, editors.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-323) and index.

The Aryan model of history and the oriental renaissance : the politics of identity in an age of revolutions, colonialism, and nationalism / Vasant Kaiwar -- Aryanizing projects, African "collaborators," and colonial transcripts / Andrew E. Barnes -- Orientalism's genesis amnesia / Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi -- Coining words : language and politics in late colonial Tamilnadu / A. R. Venkatachalapathy -- An anticolonial international? : Indians, India, and Africans in British Central Africa / Michael O. West -- The "moment of manoeuvre" : "race," ethnicity, and nation in postapartheid South Africa / Neville Alexander -- Cultural nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism : the case of Iran / Minoo Moallem -- The politics of religion and national origin : rediscovering Hindu Indian identity in the United States / Sucheta Mazumdar -- Race, orient, nation in the time-space of modernity / Vasant Kaiwar and Sucheta Mazumdar.

Drawing on archival sources and fieldwork, the politically engaged essays collected in this text explore aspects of modernity within societies of South Asia, the Middle East and Africa.