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Nationalism in India (New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University
Press, 2008); Benj amin Zachariah, "Uses of Scientific Argument;'
Economic and Political Weeky 36, no. 39 (September 29-0ctober
5, 2001).
70. For Lloyd and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, in their book
1he Postmodern Gandhi (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2010). "postmodern" refers to anything that is first, present during
the time of post-cold war late capitalism; and second, critical
of at least one of the pillars of high modernism. This includes
any sort of oppositional ideas or practices facing any one of the
dominant features of high modernism, lumping together all the
various sorts of possible critiques from the reactionary to the
progressive. This makes their argument not only anachronistic
but also sloppy. For instance, among the traits they consider evidence
of Gandhi's postmodernity are his conscious affinity with
the critical "other west;' epistemological relativism, critique of
modern industrial development and positivist hegemony, dislike
of the centralized and authoritarian state, spirituality, and vegetarianism
(since this is counterculrural in the Western context,
though of course not in the Hindu Indian context, it therefore
must be "postmodern").
71. Robert Young, in Postcoloni,tlism: An Historical
Introduction (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2001), roots postcolonialism
in third worldist socialism, defining its innovations in practice
as the adaptation of Marxist thought to the anticolonial context.
Similarly, in Methodologies of the Oppressed (Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 2000), Chela Sandoval argues
that the insights of poststructuralist thought and other academic
forms of oppositional knowledge run parallel to movements of
the Opprt:ssed against colonization.