Congratulations to Lavanya on this book! Tyler, kindly explain how it would be “empirically incorrect and theoretically untenable” to speak of “early colonial and colonial regimes of India.”
Thanks, Howard > On Jan 20, 2025, at 4:59 PM, Tyler Williams via INDOLOGY > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Congratulations! One question of clarification: the table of contents of your > book suggests that you characterize Islamicate societies and polities in > South Asia as "colonialism" ("early colonial and colonial regimes of India" > preceding "European colonization"). This argument would, of course, be > empirically incorrect, theoretically untenable, and politically an > encouragement for the further vilification of present-day South Asian Muslims > (the characterization of them as "Babar ke aulād," children of Babur, > descendants of colonial masters, and so forth). > > Certainly I must be mistaken, and this is not what you wish to suggest? > > Regards, > Tyler Williams > University of Chicago > > > > On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 8:43 AM Lavanya Vemsani via INDOLOGY > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> Dear Esteemed Colleagues, >> Happy to share the publication of my book Indian History: Reframing India in >> World History >> >> Further information on the book can be found here on the publisher's website: >> >> https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666905564/Reframing-India-in-World-History >> >> Thank you. >> >> Lavanya >> >> -- >> Dr. Lavanya Vemsani <> Ph.D. History (Univ. of Hyderabad) & Ph.D. Religious >> Studies (McMaster Univ.) >> Distinguished University Professor of History, Department of Social Sciences >> Shawnee State University >> Portsmouth OH 45662 >> V:7403513233 F:7403513153 E:[email protected] >> <mailto:e%[email protected]> >> >> Editor, International Journal of Indic Religions >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology  > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology
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