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 _____ Shekhar Krishnan 1305, Potomac Street, NW Apt.204 Washington, DC 20007 U.S.A. School of Oriental & African Studies University of London Centre for South Asian Area Studies Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square London WC1H 0XG U.K. --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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