File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_1998/postcolonial.9807, message 132


Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 02:11:49 -0500
From: Shekhar Krishnan <shekhar-AT-mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: Naipaul's "Beyond Belief"



>May I refer you to the reviews of books by Anwar Shaikh, Francois Gautier,
>Sudhir Kakah, Ram Swarup, and S.R. Goel in IndiaStar.
>
>c.j.
>
I have read the one about Francois Gautier's book, and I found it precisely
an illustration of the type of distorted historiography that I elaborated
in my earlier post. I might add that I found its communal slanting by the
author of the review nauseating, and ideological in the extreme. As I have
not read Gautier's book though, I would hesitate to venture a further
response.

There is a great danger here, as I mentioned earlier, in attempting to
equate so-called "Muslim imperialism" (a careless term, one that glosses
over the several dynasties of nominally Islamic rule) in the subcontinent
with British or Western imperialism. And I think that Dr Wallia is
attempting to use postcolonial theory for this latter purpose in what I
have read of his reviews, both here and in IndiaStar. Indeed this seems to
be the case in some parts of his other reviews in the magazine
(http://www.indiastar.com).



Shekhar

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