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This collection challenges the understanding of decolonization and humanism pervasive in post-Foucauldian postcolonial studies, in which the former signifies a positive good with the latter rejected as racializing colonial discourse. This formulation presents an epistemological confusion between the universalism of decolonization and particularism of an anti-humanism from an identitarian segmented perspective. A corrective is offered by exploring Rabindranath Tagore's (1861–1941) thoughts on hegemony and freedom, which he dislocates from the binary paradigm of tradition and modernity, thereby making a distinction between decolonization and cultural/ethnic nationalism. Tagore's writings provide the earliest classical example of anti-colonial critique.

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Himani Bannerji is Professor Emerita, York University, Canada. A Marxist anti-racist feminist, she specializes in ideology critique and historical sociology. Her publications include The Ideological Condition: Selected Essays on History, Race and Gender (nominated for the 2021 Deutscher Memorial Prize), Demography and Democracy: Essays on Nationalism, Gender, and Ideology, and Inventing Subjects: Studies in Hegemony, Patriarchy and Colonialism (recipient of the 2005 Rabindranath Memorial Prize, West Bengal Literary Academy).

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