Temporalization of Concepts: Reflections on the Concept of Unnati (Progress) in Hindi (1870–1900)

Mohinder Singh

doi:10.3167/choc.2012.070104

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Temporalization of Concepts

Reflections on the Concept of Unnati (Progress) in Hindi (1870–1900)

in Contributions to the History of Concepts

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Mohinder Singh

Mohinder Singh University of Delhi mohinder.du@gmail.com

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3167/choc.2012.070104

Keywords:: contemporaneity; nation; nationalism; progress; social reform; temporalization; time

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This article analyzes the historical semantics of the concept of unnati in the nationalist discourse in Hindi between 1870 and 1900. The article first outlines the basic features of the Enlightenment concept of progress using Koselleck's analysis. It then goes on to discuss the place of the concept of progress in the colonial ideology of a “civilizing mission,“ and concludes by taking up the analysis of the usage of the term unnati in the nationalist discourse in North India.

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