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Examines forms of cosmopolitanism in the high period of South Asian anti-colonialism, 1890-1947. Essays argue that anti-colonial action stemmed not only from a teleological rush to realize the form of nation-states, but from the speculative aspiration to critique and transcend notions of universalism and the ultimate good brought by British rule.

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Introduction; K.Manjapra PART I: THEORY AND METHODS Is Nationalism a Boon or a Curse?; A.Sen Benjamin in Bengal: Cosmopolitanism and Historical Primacy; S.Tagore Said and the History of Ideas; S.Kaviraj PART II: DIFFERENT UNIVERSALISMS Iqbal on Nietzsche: A Transcultural Dialogue; A.Jalal Different Universalisms, Colorful Cosmopolitanisms: The Global Imagination of the Colonized; S.Bose Gandhi's Printing Press: Indian Ocean Print Cultures and Cosmopolitanims; I.Hofmeyr PART III: MODERNIST THOUGHT ZONES A Local Cosmopolitan: 'Kesari' Balakrishna Pillai and the Invention of Europe for a Modern Kerala; D.Menon The Communist Ecumene and Transcolonial Recognition; K.Manjapra Rethinking (the absence of) Fascism in India, c. 1922-1945; B.Zachariah PART IV: HISTORIES OF CONNECTION A Coloured Cosmopolitanism: Cedric Dover's Reading of the Afro-Asian World; N.Slate Creative India and the World: Bengali Internationalism and Italy in the Interwar Period; M.Prayer On Orientalism and Iconoclasm: German Scholarship's Challenge to the Saidian Model; S.Marchand

Cosmopolitan Thought Zones South Asia and the Global Circulation of Ideas Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series

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      Publisher Palgrave MacMillan UK
      Published 5/26/2010 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780230243378
      978-0230243378
      ISBN-10 0230243371
      Also in:
      Asian history Colonialism and imperialism General and world history

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      Book Synopsis
      Examines forms of cosmopolitanism in the high period of South Asian anti-colonialism, 1890-1947. Essays argue that anti-colonial action stemmed not only from a teleological rush to realize the form of nation-states, but from the speculative aspiration to critique and transcend notions of universalism and the ultimate good brought by British rule.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction; K.Manjapra PART I: THEORY AND METHODS Is Nationalism a Boon or a Curse?; A.Sen Benjamin in Bengal: Cosmopolitanism and Historical Primacy; S.Tagore Said and the History of Ideas; S.Kaviraj PART II: DIFFERENT UNIVERSALISMS Iqbal on Nietzsche: A Transcultural Dialogue; A.Jalal Different Universalisms, Colorful Cosmopolitanisms: The Global Imagination of the Colonized; S.Bose Gandhi's Printing Press: Indian Ocean Print Cultures and Cosmopolitanims; I.Hofmeyr PART III: MODERNIST THOUGHT ZONES A Local Cosmopolitan: 'Kesari' Balakrishna Pillai and the Invention of Europe for a Modern Kerala; D.Menon The Communist Ecumene and Transcolonial Recognition; K.Manjapra Rethinking (the absence of) Fascism in India, c. 1922-1945; B.Zachariah PART IV: HISTORIES OF CONNECTION A Coloured Cosmopolitanism: Cedric Dover's Reading of the Afro-Asian World; N.Slate Creative India and the World: Bengali Internationalism and Italy in the Interwar Period; M.Prayer On Orientalism and Iconoclasm: German Scholarship's Challenge to the Saidian Model; S.Marchand

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