Abstract In the late 19th and early 20th centuries South Asian intellectuals began to develop a specifically Indian political economy – ostensibly grounded in Indigenous interests, values, norms, knowledge systems, and practices – as a response to the failure of the British colonial government to bring ‘moral and material improvement’ to the subcontinent. The article examines the relationship between colonial knowledge/power and the anti-hegemonic project of an Indian political economy, which claims to assert ‘Indigenous’ knowledge as counter-knowledge, but continues to share the same discursive space as orthodox political economy. The contribution explores how the alterity and indigeneity of Indian political economy was justfied and discusses the power relations in which the legitimacy of this alterity was enmeshed. Finally, the article analyses the limits set to the emancipatory impetus of such an ‘indigenous, postcolonial critique’.

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1870-1920 年（后）殖民印度的知识/权力：作为反知识的印度政治经济学和殖民秩序的转变

摘要 在 19 世纪末和 20 世纪初，南亚知识分子开始发展一种特定的印度政治经济——表面上以土著利益、价值观、规范、知识体系和实践为基础——作为对英国殖民政府未能带来次大陆的“道德和物质改善”。本文考察了殖民知识/权力与印度政治经济学的反霸权计划之间的关系，该计划声称将“土著”知识断言为反知识，但继续与正统政治经济学共享相同的话语空间。这篇文章探讨了印度政治经济的他异性和本土性是如何被证明的，并讨论了这种他性的合法性所涉及的权力关系。最后，