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Passages through India

Indian Gurus, Western Disciples and the Politics of Indophilia, 1890–1940

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Gebonden, 320 blz. | Engels
Cambridge University Press | e druk, 2023
ISBN13: 9781009337984
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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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ISBN13:9781009337984
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Gebonden
Aantal pagina's:320

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List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Section I. Introduction: Indophilia and Its Wider Worlds, 1890–1940; 1. Languages of Longing: Indian Gurus, Western Disciples and the Politics of Letter-Writing; Section II. 2. Home in the World: Indophiles and the Ashram; 3. India, Indophiles and Indenture: Cultural Politics of a Transnational Discourse, 1911–1931; Section III. 4. Practices of Discipleship: Vivekananda and His Women Disciples, 1890–1910; 5. Vedanta and Its Variables: The Politics of a 'World Religion', 1890–1910; Epilogue: What Settles After; Bibliography; Index.

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