Linear history and the nation-state; Bifurcating linear histories in China and India; the campaigns against religion and the return of the repressed; secret brotherhood and revolutionary discourse in China's Republican revolution; the genealogy of Fengjian or feudalism - narratives of civil society and state; provincial narratives of the nation - federalism and centralism in modern China; critics of modernity in India and China.
Prasenjit Duara is chair of the department of history at the University of chicago. He is the author of Culture, Power, and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942 and Sovereignty and Authentcity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern.
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