Passages through India

• Verfasst von: Biswas, Somak [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Passages through India
• Titelzusatz: Indian gurus, western disciples and the politics of Indophilia, 1890-1940
• Verf.angabe: Somak Biswas
• Verlagsort: Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Jahr: 2023
• Umfang: xvii, 291 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Global South Asians
• ISBN: 978-1-009-33798-4
• Schlagwörter: (g)Westliche Welt / (g)Indien / (s)Hinduismus / (s)Idealisierung / (z)Geschichte 1890-1940
• Schlagwörter: (g)Indien / (s)Guru / (g)Westliche Welt / (s)Schüler / (z)Geschichte 1890-1940
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe
• Sach-SW: Asian history
• Sach-SW: Asiatische Geschichte
• Sach-SW: HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
• Sach-SW: History
• Sach-SW: Social & cultural history
• Sach-SW: Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
• Geograph. SW: Asia
• Geograph. SW: Asien
• Geograph. SW: Indian sub-continent
• Geograph. SW: Indischer Subkontinent
• Zeit-SW: 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.)
• Zeit-SW: 20th century
• K10plus-PPN: 1841942146

Abstract

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