intellectual history
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Why Pakistani Liberals Remain a Colonised Intellectual Class
X.T.M argues that a dispute over a factual correction showed how Pakistani liberals defer to credentials such as an Oxford degree, a habit he traces to colonisation, and calls on…
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The invention of Hinduism 1,000 years ago by a Muslim
Razib Khan criticises the Eurocentrism of postcolonial discourse and offers extracts from the Central Asian polymath Al-Biruni on Indian religion, as one of the earliest extensive outsider accounts of the…
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Review: The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam
Omar Ali reviews Muhammad Iqbal’s The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam, tracing its origin in lectures given in Madras, Hyderabad and Aligarh in the late 1920s and the book’s…
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Review: From the Ruins of Empire; The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia
A long rolling review, written while reading Pankaj Mishra’s From the Ruins of Empire and reposted after editing, argues the book is not really about the intellectuals who remade Asia,…
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Review: Age of Anger. Pankaj Mishra
An admitted rant rather than a review, aimed less at Pankaj Mishra personally than at the postliberal Eurocentric elite he writes for and who admire him, taking issue with Age…
