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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1. Verfasser: Biswas, Somak (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2023
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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
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Introduction: Indophilia and its wider worlds, 1890-1940 -- Languages of longing : Indian gurus, Western disciples and the politics of letter-writing -- Home in the world : Indophiles and the Ashram -- India, Indophiles and indenture : cultural politics of a transnational discourse, 1911-1931 -- Practices of discipleship : Vivekananda and his women disciples, 1890-1910 -- Vedanta and its variables : the politics of a 'world religion,' 1890-1910 -- Epilogue : what settles after
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 291 Seiten)
ISBN:9781009337960
DOI:10.1017/9781009337960

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