Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: when ideas travel: political theory, colonialism, and the history of ideas

Parochial universalisms

Engaged political theory

Situating the volume

An overview of the chapters

Notes

1 Intellectual flows and counterflows: the strange case of J. S. Mill

J. S. Mill’s Einfühlung

J. S. Mill and Rammohun Roy

Conclusion: an unfinished project

Abbreviations

Notes

2 Rethinking resistance: Spencer, Krishnavarma, and The Indian Sociologist

1 Intellectual foundations

2 Moderates, extremists, and terrorists: Krishnavarma and the nationalist constellation

(i) The ‘unknown patriot’

(ii) The nationalist constellation I: moderates

(iii) The nationalist constellation II: extremists and terrorists

3 A state of violence: Spencer, sociology, and the sentimental foundations of empire

Conclusion

Notes

3 The other Mahatma’s naive monarchism: Phule, Paine, and the appeal to Queen Victoria

Slaveries and conquests

Paine in Phule’s Indian context

The British: better invaders?

Supplication, sentimentality, and the Queen

Between critique and catachresis

Notes

4 The New World ‘sans-culottes’: French revolutionary ideology in Saint-Domingue

The revolutions in Saint-Domingue and France

How radical were the French revolutionaries?

1802, the fall of Charles Bélair and the rise of Dessalines

Haiti and the problem of institutional teleology

Notes

5 Confronting colonial otherness: the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the limits ...

A hegemonic and contested universalism

The universalist premise of the JCPC

Justice, equity, and good conscience

The limits of judicial universalism

Universality, representation, and legitimacy

Notes

6 The indigenous redemption of liberal universalism

Christianity, liberalism, and racism

Peter Jones 1802–53: gaining mastery over fate

The challenge of ‘Social Darwinism’

Charles Eastman 1858–1939: the Indian renewed

Warriors for empire and democracy: Apirana Ngata and Zitkala-Ša

William Cooper: British Aborigines?

Conclusion: the mobile signifiers of universality

Notes

7 Troubling appropriations: Pedro Paterno’s Filipino deployment of French Lamarckianism

Ilustrados’ worlds

Paterno’s ways of conceiving of civilization as successive eras

Paterno’s race thinking and its French antecedents

Not ancestors, but specimens

Conclusion: futures of the past

Notes

8 Colonial hesitation, appropriation, and citation: Qāsim Amīn, empire, and saying ‘no’

Saying ‘no’ and colonised thought

Theorising colonised reception

The politics of audience and persuasion

Defensive postures and blaming others: a Francophone audience

Aggressive postures and aggression by nature: Cairo I

Inventing Islam, disaggregating Europe: Cairo II

Defensive frustration and transnational comparisons

Terms of imitation and colonial hesitation: Cairo III

Faith in progress, extinction, and colonialism: Cairo IV

Colonised intellectuals and the gaze of the empire

Cairene exchanges

Reading Les Égyptiens in Europe, or, can the Muslim speak (of Islam)?

The Liberation of Women: between silence and progress

The Liberation of Women and The New Woman: between gospel and empire

Shields and daggers of colonial orientalism

Notes

9 Marxism and historicism in the thought of Abdullah Laroui

The life and times of Abdullah Laroui

The intellectual context of Laroui’s intervention

Identifying the problem: traditionalism and cultural retardation

Towards a solution: anti-colonial historicism

Bypassing liberalism

Marxist historicism and the third-world intellectual

By way of conclusion

Notes

Index