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CONTESTATION. The act by which two parties to an action claim the same right, or when one claims a right to a thing which the other denies; a controversy. Wolff, Dr. de la Nat. 762. |
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In telling vignettes and powerful particulars, he shows that it has always been socially and culturally constructed, that those constructions have always been contested, and that those contestations have always changed over time. She reads contemporary narratives of slavery both as counterhistories to the official history of slavery imposed by colonial and neocolonial powers and as complications and contestations of the themes of resistance and progress that dominate earlier narratives. Dube offers a sympathetic review and critique of the trajectory of "Subaltern Studies" as an intellectual project, followed by a brief discussion of contestations over the history of Ayodhya (site of the Babri Masjid demolition of 1992) and another of recent controversies over the representation of Hinduism in the Western academy. |
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