Late colonial India newly groped toward secular historicization of the material world

Evidence

Furthermore, it was also in the laner decades of the colonial period, especially with the rise of the communist movement and irs concomitant cultural clusters, that India began to witness the gradual emergence of fullscale literary cultures that were, in many of their articulations, nor only struggling against religious particularity and obscurantism, which many kinds of both personal and collective dissidence had attempted in innumerable ways in the past as well, bur were also groping, for the first rime in our history, towards secular hisroricization and non-religious narrarivization of the material world. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 1192

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial secularism in India actually created the possibility of Islamism; Marxist historians made theoretical Indian history possible beyond rulers and religions — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 488

Broader Connections

• Marxist historians made theoretical Indian history possible beyond rulers and religions #corroborates (0.80) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 488
• Colonial secularism in India actually created the possibility of Islamism #responds-to (0.75)