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Notes

1. The controversy raised by huntington’s article is well known. he was
accused of grossly simplifying reality, neglecting the role of states, implicitly
nurturing a covert indulgence towards forms of extremism by recognizing
them as a real force, putting the West on alert, seeing the increasing
interaction between eight civilizations (Western, Confucian, Japanese,
Islamic, hindu, Orthodox Slav, Latin American and African) as a cause of
crisis and deterioration, assuming a demise of ideologies, and even hiding
a North American agenda by providing the United States with an alibi
for enforcing a globalization ultimately meant to shroud the planet in a
blanket of cultural uniformity, thereby permanently eliminating all further
prospect of inter-cultural war—let us read cultural diversity and autonomy,
inter-cultural confrontation and interbreeding (Sauquet 1997).
2. Students of various domains substitute models of complex negotiation
to antithetic conceptualizations, for instance, in the history of Indian
nationalism (Chatterjee 1986; Dalmia 1999; Jaffrelot 1999) and in cultural
anthropology (Nandy 1983; Poitevin and Rairkar 1996; Richman 1992;
Thapar 2000).

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