Indigenism in Contemporary IR Discourses in India: A Critique
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine indigenism in the field of International Relations (IR) in India and critically examine its application in India's economic and social development. Indigenism involves a claim that a select corpus of resources from early India is indigeneous.
Abstract: This article critically examines indigenism in the field of International Relations (IR) in India. Indigenism involves a claim that a select corpus of resources from early India—‘indigenous histori...
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28 Feb 2019
TL;DR: The authors argue that IR needs to continue this globalizing movement if it is to cope with the rapidly emerging post-Western world order, with its more diffuse distribution of wealth, power and cultural authority.
Abstract: This book presents a challenge to the discipline of international relations (IR) to rethink itself, in the light of both its own modern origins, and the two centuries of world history that have shaped it. By tracking the development of thinking about IR, and the practice of world politics, this book shows how they relate to each other across five time periods from nineteenth-century colonialism, through two world wars, the Cold War and decolonization, to twenty-first-century globalization. It gives equal weight to both the neglected voices and histories of the Global South, and the traditionally dominant perspectives of the West, showing how they have moved from nearly complete separation to the beginnings of significant integration. The authors argue that IR needs to continue this globalizing movement if it is to cope with the rapidly emerging post-Western world order, with its more diffuse distribution of wealth, power and cultural authority.
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14 Feb 2019TL;DR: The authors argue that IR needs to continue this globalizing movement if it is to cope with the rapidly emerging post-Western world order, with its more diffuse distribution of wealth, power and cultural authority.
Abstract: This book presents a challenge to the discipline of international relations (IR) to rethink itself, in the light of both its own modern origins, and the two centuries of world history that have shaped it. By tracking the development of thinking about IR, and the practice of world politics, this book shows how they relate to each other across five time periods from nineteenth-century colonialism, through two world wars, the Cold War and decolonization, to twenty-first-century globalization. It gives equal weight to both the neglected voices and histories of the Global South, and the traditionally dominant perspectives of the West, showing how they have moved from nearly complete separation to the beginnings of significant integration. The authors argue that IR needs to continue this globalizing movement if it is to cope with the rapidly emerging post-Western world order, with its more diffuse distribution of wealth, power and cultural authority.
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TL;DR: The authors argue that IR is not yet a truly global discipline that captures the full range of ideas, approaches and experiences of both Western and non-Western societies, and they neglect the experiences and relationships in other parts of the world, or offer a poor fit for understanding and explaining them.
Abstract: The study of International Relations is growing rapidly all over the world. IR students in Western universities are an increasingly multicultural lot, drawn from many different parts of the world. There is also a proliferation of IR departments and programmes in universities outside the West, especially in large countries such as China, India, Turkey, Brazil and Indonesia. However, IR is not yet a truly global discipline that captures the full range of ideas, approaches and experiences of both Western and non-Western societies. IR theories and concepts remain heavily biased in favour of Western Europe and the United States. Consequently, they neglect the experiences and relationships in other parts of the world, or offer a poor fit for understanding and explaining them.
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"Indigenism in Contemporary IR Disco..." refers background in this paper
...This theory was problematized by the scholars mentioned above, who recognized that societies in the non-Western world do not line up in what Dipesh Chakrabarty has called the ‘waiting room of history’ to become versions of the West (Chakrabarty, 2000, p. 9)....
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TL;DR: A collection of his essays in the last fifteen years discusses areas in which the colonial impact has generally been overlooked as discussed by the authors, and the essays form an exploration of the ways in which British discovery, collection, and codification of information about Indian project of control and command.
Abstract: This collection of his writings in the last fifteen years discusses areas in which the colonial impact has generally been overlooked. The essays form an exploration of the ways in which the British discovery, collection, and codification of information about Indian project of control and command. He also asserts that an arena of colonial power that seemed most benign and most susceptible to indigenous influences - mostly law - in fact became responsible for the institutional reactivation of peculiarly British notions about how to regulate a colonial society made up of "others". he shows how the very orientalist imagination that led to brilliant antiquarian collections, archaeological finds, and photographic forays were in fact forms of constructing an India that could be better packaged, inferiorized, and ruled. A final essay on cloth suggests how clothes have been part of the history of both colonialism and anticolonialism.
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...The following writings offer a sense of the issues involved in understanding the modernization of South Asia and India through colonialism: Bayly (1988), Chandra (2009), Cohn (2004a, 2004b) and Kaviraj (2005b, 2010a, 2010b)....
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