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Prospect Top 50 Thinker of 2021British Academy Book Prize FinalistPROSE Award Finalist. "Provocative, elegantly written." -- Fara Dabhoiwala, New York Review of Books. "Demonstrates how a broad rethinking of political issues becomes possible when Western ideals and practices are examined from the vantage point of Asia and Africa." -- Pankaj Mishra, New York Review of Books. In case after case around the globe -- from Israel to Sudan -- the colonial state and the nation-state have been constructed through the politicization of a religious or ethnic majority at the expense of an equally manufactured minority. The model emerged in America, where genocide and internment on reservations created a permanent native minority. In Europe, this template would be used both by the Nazis and the Allies.
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Mahmood Mamdani is Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and Professor of Anthropology and of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University and Director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research in Kampala. He is the author of , and
