Eurocentricism: Colonialism in the Post Colonial Times

Abstract
The paper attempts to highlight the methodological limitations faced by third-world country social scientists. It points out the domination of Eurocentricism in the discipline of social sciences and the difficulty of transcending the same. The author takes up the works of Adam Mckoewn and Prabhu Mohapatra to illustrate the same. The Paper ends with the author’s proposal for understanding this limitation and to profess the same in the short run; and calls for the development of novel methodological tools which are not ‘anti-Eurocentric critic’ of Eurocentrism’.
Keywords: Eurocentricism, Modernity, Social Sciences, Migrations

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