Passages through India: Indian gurus, western disciples and the politics of Indophilia, 1890-1940
Passages Through India offers a study of the phenomenon of Western Indophilia: romanticised engagements around Hindu ideas of India. It argues that affective practices cultivated between major Indian guru-figures (Gandhi, Tagore and Vivekananda) and their white disciples serviced a larger politics o...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge New York Port Melbourne New Delhi Singapore
Cambridge University Press
2023
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Series/Journal: | Global South Asians
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Western world
/ India
/ Hinduism
/ Idealization
/ History 1890-1940
B India / Guru / Western world / Pupil / History 1890-1940 |
| Further subjects: | B
Asian History
B Asiatische Geschichte B Social & Cultural History B Asia B Indischer Subkontinent B India & South Asia / Asia / HISTORY B 20th Century B History B 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.) B Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte B Indian sub-continent |
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| Summary: | Passages Through India offers a study of the phenomenon of Western Indophilia: romanticised engagements around Hindu ideas of India. It argues that affective practices cultivated between major Indian guru-figures (Gandhi, Tagore and Vivekananda) and their white disciples serviced a larger politics of respectability, tied to exigencies of Indian cultural and nationalist politics. Indophile deployments in transnational projects like the abolition of indentured labour and global Hinduism, while anti-colonial, were not quite emancipatory. Such deployments - in Africa, America, Fiji and India - frequently reproduced deep hierarchies around race, class, caste and gender. Unifying distinct strands of western discipleship within a shared tradition of Indophilia, Passages Through India offers a new methodological framework that situates self and subjectivity as central to processes of global mobility and migration |
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| ISBN: | 100933798X |