| Why the old Eurocentrism issue once again? You might wonder upon seeing this page. Despite repeated claims on part of several different schools of social theory, the construction of social thought genuinely belonging to the non-EuroAmerican "Majority World" is still in its infancy. Fifty years on, developmentalism, postmodernism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, multiculturalism, globalization and "end of history" notwithstanding, a credible alternative to Eurocentric thought (grounded as it is in the political economy of modernity), is still only emerging. This page is an amalgamation of my own modest efforts as well as more substantial critiques of thinkers in many different traditions. In this regard check out a really interesting book called Eastern Origins of Western Civilization by John Hobson. I recently wrote a review for this book. The review was published in the Review of Radical Political Economics (39:609-612 (Fall 2007)) Some work that I have done in collaboration with Rajesh Bhattacharya will also appear shortly as Bhattacharya R and Basole A (2008) The Phantom of Liberty: Mo(der)nism and Postcolonial Imaginations in India, in Rajani Kanth ed., The Challenge of Eurocentrism, Palgrave Macmillan forthcoming.
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