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world debates are best appreciated if we see them as notations within the cultural polemic of
decolonization, they may be used in all earnestness as essential categories and real options but in fact
they are largely pragmatic features of nation building. Indeed the terms function in a hyphenated form
and mark the double (or multiple) register of a persuasive nationalistic discourse. Sufficiently
historicized, either tradition or contemporaniety can notate a "radical" purpose in the cultural politics
of the third world.' Contemporary Cultural Practice: Some Polemical Categories, Occasional Papers 145
on History and Society, Nehru Museum and Library, New Delhi, 1989, p. 1.
70. Kagal, Vistara Catalogue, p. 28.
71. Jacques Derrida, 'Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression7, Diacritics, Summer 1995, p. 51.
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