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This thoughtful and illuminating book provides a major statement on the meaning and importance of postmodernity.

"e;Dube ranges widely and globally - from histories of empires and genealogies of disciplines to recent Dalit artwork from India - to explore and carefully deli

Offers an examination of modernity and consumption with a non-Marxist, modernity-Resistance-theoretical frame (mRf).

This volume studies the ways in which modernity has been conceived, practiced, and performed in Indian literatures from the 18th to 20th century. It brings toge