Provincializing Europe
by Dipesh Chakrabarty · Dipesh Chakrabarty
Chakrabarty argues that European categories such as historicism, reason, and modernity are both indispensable and inadequate for writing the histories of colonized societies, drawing examples from colonial Bengal. Prepares readers to follow central debates in postcolonial historiography and subaltern studies.
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