The Dialectic of Cosmopolitan Time

It is generally understood that the modern colonial encounter warped the experience of time in the postcolonial world, rendering it a pale imitation of the European present. In The Dialectic of Cosmopolitan Time, Shaj Mathew offers a powerful challenge to this well-known narrative by assembling a cohesive dialectic: if the colonial encounter produced allochronism (the denial of coevalness with Europe), postcolonial nations inevitably sought homochronism (temporal parity with their former Eu...