Romantic Nationalism in India

Bob van der Linden, Ph.D. (2004), University of Amsterdam, studies modern South Asian cultural history in a global context. His previous publications include Moral Languages from Colonial Punjab (2008), Music and Empire in Britain and India (2013) and Arnold Bake: A Life with South Asian Music (2018).

• ContentsPrefaceList of FiguresChronologyMap of British India1 Introduction1 Romanticism, Indian Tradition and the Nation2 Romantic Nationalism and the Global Circulation of Ideas2 Hail to the Mother[land]!1 Cultivation of Language: The Historical Novel and Mother India2 Swadeshi and the Soul of the Nation3 Mother India: Patriotic Songs and Visual Representations3 Legendary National Heroes1 James Tod’s Rajput Heroes2 Hero-Worship beyond Rajputana: From Shivaji to Krishna3 Remediation in Indian Cinema4 Aryan, Tamil and Muslim Golden Ages1 Sanskrit, the Vedas and Aryanism2 Tamil and the Origins of Man3 Islam’s Lost Glory5 National Music, Art and Architecture1 Music, Classicization and the Nation2 Painting the Nation: From Raja Ravi Varma to Swadeshi Art and Beyond3 Revivalist Architecture of the Indian Nation(s)6 Romantic Revolutions1 The Return of the King2 Muhammad Barkatullah’s Global Revolt3 Mobilization of the Masses: Gandhi and Ambedkar7 Epilogue1 The Nation’s Recoil8 AfterwordJoep LeerssenBibliographyIndex