ABSTRACT
This concluding chapter underlines the wide variety of themes ranging from the challenges of underdevelopment to the politics of world literary order that the preceding chapters dealt with, drawing on the writings of literary figures, political activists and policymakers from India and Latin America. One of the themes this conclusion highlights is the multiple ways in which the dynamics of development have been theorized, seen through the relational and connected framework the volume employs. Our comparative intellectual history also reveals that the innovative attempts at decolonizing epistemology were driven not so much by a desire to turn inwards and break away from Western canons as much as they were aimed at challenging the imperial project of parcelling knowledge into graded, discrete boxes. Lastly, the thinkers and writers dealt with in this book are not relics from the past; this concluding chapter underscores the abiding relevance of the liberatory epistemologies that have emanated from these two regions.
