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Dipesh Chakrabarty is a Bengali historian, who has also made contributions to postcolonial theory and

subaltern studies 

Summary : The way in which we write history, and indeed engage in social-scientific theoretical thinking onthe whole, is fundamentally compromised by the silent, often unacknowledged and unavoidable referent of animagined “Europe.” The proect to provinciali!e this Europe is about articulating the non-unitary e"perience ofpolitical modernity which especially characteri!es the postcolonial parado": to be formed and to form the self as

a modern political subect yet to remain in the waiting room of a history that has already been foretold #eg. inthe case of $ndia, constitutionally recogni!ing universal adult franchise from the nation%s inception, without theprior guarantee of universal education&. $n order to write back a plural history of power into this unitaryhistoricist narrative, which is ine"tricably linked to the idea of the political, we need first to 'uestion theuniversal nature of secular, homogeneous historical time, and reect the facile sociological e"planation for godsand spirits as agents. (eligion, to recall )andair, mediates $ndia%s entry into political modernity* this book onlypartially touches on this idea, preferring to articulate alternatives in terms of the +eideggerian hermeneutictradition, which pays close attention to the diversity of particular life-worlds, and acknowledging theindispensability of but moving beyond the )ar"ist analytic tradition, which deals in abstract universals.

* Frantz Omar Fanon was a Martinique-born Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist, philosopher,

revolutionary, and writer whose wors are influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical

theory, and Mar!ism"

* #he pitfall of national consciousness is chapter three from his boo $ #he %retched of the &arth$

• 't is important to recall that Fanon wrote most parts of the boo in ()+ when

decolonization was occurrin in most African countries" #his suests that, Fanon had a direct

e!perience of colonialism, independence and problems that came with it"

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' thin this boo is a theory of rupture that taes media and miration as its two ma.or, and

interconnected, e!plores their .oint effect on the wor of the imaination as fundamental feature of

modern sub.ectivity" #he first step in this arument is that electronic media decisively chane the

wider field of mass media and other traditional media" /uch media transform the field of mass

mediation because they offer new resources and new disciplines for the construction of imained

selves and imained worlds"

'n this article ' will start from the conclusion throuh this quotation which it summarizes the

 problem between the under developed middle class which taes over power at the end of colonial

reime, and the masses ,,,,,,

the followin quotations will show the sinificant reasons for that ,,,,,,,,,,,, so the conflet between

the middle-class and the masses almost embraces all life fields , intellect, economy and politics,

therefore it is hard to lobalize it and maybe we can say here that the missin of landscapes

especially ideoscapes which miht e!acerbate the situation"

and these quotations show the solutions accordin to Fanon ,,,,,,,,,,

Finally , nationalization means placin the whole economy at the service of the nation and

decidin to satisfy the needs of the nation" 0ationalization means overnin the state with reard to

the new social relations which will encourae the rowth, enlihtment, imaination, lobalization"