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Associate Editor: Three Essays Collective; Historian. PhD@JNU: Saffron Propaganda in 1940s+50s; Journalist: Indian+US politics https://t.co/aQdhn0V7WO

Oct 8, 2022, 11 tweets

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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