Provincializing Europe Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference

"Chakrabarty's book is not only an unusually sustained and nuanced argument against European ideas of modernity, but also an elegy for, and subtle critique of, his own intellectual formation and inheritance as a Bengali....It is the ambiguity of Chakrabarty's own position as both a critic and archivist of modernity that gives his study its poetic undertow an its intelligent irresponsibility"Chakrabarty, Dipesh is the author of 'Provincializing Europe Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference', published 2000 under ISBN 9780691049090 and ISBN 0691049092.