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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| Type de support: | Électronique Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
| Service de livraison Subito: | Commander maintenant. |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Cambridge New York, NY
Cambridge University Press
2023
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| Dans: | Année: 2023 |
| Collection/Revue: | Global South Asians
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| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
India
Politics and government 1765-1947
B Worship (Hinduism) Political aspects B Hinduism and politics (India) B India Foreign relations (Western countries) B Hinduism Missions B Western countries Foreign relations (India) B Gurus Political activity (India) B Orientalism |
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| Édition parallèle: | Erscheint auch als: 9781009337984 |
| Résumé: | 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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| Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Jun 2023) |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xvii, 291 pages), digital, PDF file(s). |
| ISBN: | 1009337963 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/9781009337960 |