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Title: Alternative Modernities, Alternatives to Modernity Or Multiple Modernities - What else?
Author : Pakistan Perspectives
Release Date : January 31, 2010
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
Pages : * pages
Size : 75 KB

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Byline: Harbans Mukhia The term 'modernity' as a received category and the host of connotations that accompany it has an inescapably West European provenance. These connotations remain predominant in the whole discourse, often even in the discourse which seeks alternatives to it. 'Modern' indeed leads us back into the division of historical time, itself a European construct. Historiography in Asian regions - China, Japan, India - did operate with a sense of historical time, but not one that divided chunks of history into one or another 'period'. The birth of Islam did draw one sharp vertical line that divided history into the age of jahiliya - ignorance, savagery - and the age of Islam that had brought light of knowledge as defined by Islam. But the notion of 'modern' was absent from all these pursuits of history.