Enlightenment and violence : modernity and nation-making /
Tadd Fern�ee.
- 1 online resource.
- SAGE series in modern Indian history ; 15 .
- SAGE series in modern Indian history ; 15. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Enlightenment and Violence' is a history of ideas that proposes a multi-centred and non-Eurocentric interpretation of the Enlightenment as a human heritage. This comparative study reconstructs how modernity was negotiated in different intellectual and political contexts as a national discourse within the broader heritage of Enlightenment.