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This dissertation is concerned with Enlightenment in a colonial and postcolonial setting. Its premise is that minority is a fundamental category of experience in post-Enlightenment liberal societies. It attempts a genealogy of secularism in colonial and postcolonial South Asia b…

A modest historic province on the Atlantic coast of west-central Senegal, the Siin is portrayed in oral traditions and written documents as a vibrant cultural frontier, which oscillated between centralized and more dispersed forms of socio-political organization over the past 15…

In studies of early New England architecture, Southeastern Massachusetts and Plymouth Colony have received significantly less attention than the Massachusetts Bay Colony and region. This study aims to shed some new light on early houses in this region, through a synthetic analys…

This is a study of the construction of sainthood in the colonial Punjab (1849-1929) based on the lives of two of this region's ascetic "saints," the Hindu Rama Tirtha (1873-1906) and the Sikh convert to Christianity, Sundar Singh (1889-1929?). My thesis is that asceticism in thi…

At the end of the American War of Independence, a number of ex-slaves who had gained their independence by joining the British Red Coats were either transported to Britain along with other British war veterans or relocated to Nova Scotia. Subsequently, these two groups formed th…