Prologue : towards a genealogy of postcolonial secularism -- Jewishness as minority : emergence of a European problematic -- Inscriptions of minority in British late imperial culture : from Daniel Deronda to A passage to India -- Jawaharlal Nehru and Abul Kalam Azad : discovering India -- Saadat Hasan Manto : a greater story writer than God -- Faiz Ahmed Faiz : towards a lyric history of India -- Epilogue : in my beginning is my end : Jewish exile and the language of English India
Summary
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 Mufti identifies the Hindu-Muslim conflict in India as a colonial variation of what he calls "the exemplary crisis of minority"--Jewishness in Europe
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-313) and index
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