ANNOUNCEMENT🧵 from Three Essays Collective!
We've re-released, in Kindle edition globally & print editions in major foreign markets (via Amazon):
On Communalism and Globalization: Offensives of the Far Right
By Aijaz Ahmad
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On Communalism and Globalization: Offensives of the Far Right - Aijaz Ahmad
Available for just ₹150 for the Kindle edition in India.
Tags: #Ayodhya, Culture, #Globalization, #Marxism, #NeoImperialism, #Fascism, #SouthAsia, #AcademicChatter
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In 3 celebrated lectures, extensively re-worked since they were delivered first, Prof. Aijaz Ahmad discusses the progress of neo-imperialism & the increasing influence of fascism in the 3rd world societies & critically evaluates their resources – cultural, social & ideological.
CONTENTS:
Introduction to the Second Edition
Introduction to the First Edition
1️⃣On the Ruins of Ayodhya: Communalist Offensive and Recovery of the Secular
2️⃣Right Wing Politics, and the Cultures of Cruelty
3️⃣Globalization and Culture
Cover image: Ami Vitale, Ahmedabad March 2002 (Courtesy: Getty Images). Cover design: Ishtihaar.
Aijaz Ahmad was a leading Marxist thinker, critic and commentator, whose contributions to literary theory and commentaries on contemporary politics have been seminal.
Among his books are:
In the past he had been Visiting Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library; held the Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Chair at Jamia Millia University, New Delhi; & Visiting Prof at various universities in the US & Canada
Valued for his role as public intellectual, he has been widely read in the Frontline magazine, and heard on international radio and TV.
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