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Eurocentrism is both the target and the motive force of the post-colonial political theory. Discuss.

  • UPSC 2023
  • 15 marks
  • Theories of the State

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Eurocentrism — a term credited to the Egyptian Marxist economist Samir Amin in the 1970s and systematised in his Eurocentrism (1988) — treats Europe's path to the nation-state, capitalism and secular modernity as the universal yardstick by which other societies are found wanting. Post-colonial theory exists to dismantle that yardstick, yet Europe also drives it:…

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  • Eurocentrism as the target
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