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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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Cambridge New York Port Melbourne New Delhi Singapore Cambridge University Press 2023
In:Jahr: 2023
Schriftenreihe/Zeitschrift:Global South Asians
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Westliche Welt / Indien / Hinduismus / Idealisierung / Geschichte 1890-1940
B Indien / Guru / Westliche Welt / Schüler / Geschichte 1890-1940
weitere Schlagwörter:B Asian History
B Asiatische Geschichte
B Social & Cultural History
B Asia
B Indischer Subkontinent
B Asien
B 20th Century
B HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
B History
B 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.)
B Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
B Indian sub-continent
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Parallele Ausgabe:Erscheint auch als: 9781009337960
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Zusammenfassung: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
ISBN:100933798X