আজ গ্লোবের যে চেহারা দেখি, সেটা মূলত ঔপনিবেশিক আধুনিকতার ফসল। গ্লোব নির্ভর করে উপনিবেশ যেভাবে তার আধুনিকতার ধারণা বিস্তার ঘটাল, সে তত্ত্ব নিয়ে সুমতি রামস্বামী বিশদে আলোচনা করেছেন।
Why and how do debates about the form and disposition of our Earth shape enlightened subjectivity and secular worldliness in colonial modernity? Sumathi Ramaswamy explores this question for British India with the aid of the terrestrial globe, which since the sixteenth century has circulated as a worldly symbol, a scientific instrument, and not least an educational tool for inculcating planetary consciousness.
Why and how do debates about the form and disposition of our Earth shape enlightened subjectivity and secular worldliness in colonial modernity? Sumathi Ramaswamy explores this question for British India with the aid of the terrestrial globe, which since the sixteenth century has circulated as a worldly symbol, a scientific instrument, and not least an educational tool for inculcating planetary consciousness.
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