Passages through India
Indian Gurus, Western Disciples and the Politics of Indophilia, 1890-1940
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
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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.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2023-09-21
- Mått158 x 237 x 22 mm
- Vikt550 g
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieGlobal South Asians
- Antal sidor320
- FörlagCambridge University Press
- EAN9781009337984