ISBN:
9789400746619
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XIII, 265 p, digital)
Series Statement:
Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures 2
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Paranjape, Makarand R., 1960 - Making India
Keywords:
Comparative Literature
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Humanities
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Humanities / Arts / Design
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Comparative Literature
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Humanities
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Bibliografie
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Indien
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Modernisierung
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Englisch
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Autor
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Geschichte 1800-1950
Abstract:
Compared to how it looked 150 years ago at the eve of the colonial conquest, today's India is almost completely unrecognizable. A sovereign nation, with a teeming, industrious population, it is an economic powerhouse and the world's largest democracy. It can boast of robust legal institutions and a dizzying plurality of cultures, in addition to a lively and unrestricted print and electronic media. The question is how did it get to where it is now? Covering the period from 1800 to 1950, this study of about a dozen makers of modern India is a valuable addition to India's cultural and intellectua
Abstract:
Compared to how it looked 150 years ago at the eve of the colonial conquest, todays India is almost completely unrecognizable. A sovereign nation, with a teeming, industrious population, it is an economic powerhouse and the worlds largest democracy. It can boast of robust legal institutions and a dizzying plurality of cultures, in addition to a lively and unrestricted print and electronic media. The question is how did it get to where it is now? Covering the period from 1800 to 1950, this study of about a dozen makers of modern India is a valuable addition to Indias cultural and intellectual history. More specifically, it shows how through the very act of writing, often in English, these thought leaders reconfigured Indian society. The very act of writing itself became endowed with almost a charismatic authority, which continued to influence generations that came after the exit of the authors from the national stage. By examining the lives and works of key players in the making of contemporary India, this study assesses their relationships with British colonialism and Indian traditions. Moreover, it analyzes how their use of the English language helped shape Indian modernity, thus giving rise to a uniquely Indian version of liberalism. The period was the fiery crucible from which an almost impossibly diverse and pluralistic new nation emerged through debate, dialogue, conflict, confrontation, and reconciliation. The author shows how the struggle for India was not only with British colonialism and imperialism, but also with itself and its past. He traces the religious and social reforms that laid the groundwork for the modern sub-continental state, proposed and advocated in English by the native voices that influenced the formation Indias society. Merging culture, politics, language, and literature, this is a path breaking volume that adds much to our understanding of a nation that looks set to achieve much in the coming century.
Description / Table of Contents:
Making India: Colonialism, National Culture, and the Afterlife of Indian English Authority; Author Biography; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; Works Cited; Chapter 2: "Usable Pasts": Rammohun Roy's Occidentalism; 2.1 Usable Pasts, Occidentalisms, Disciplinary Boundaries; 2.2 Ten Theses on Rammohun Roy; 2.3 India, Britain, and Svaraj; 2.4 The Middle Ground Between Reductive Oppositions; 2.5 Rammohun and the Christian Missionaries; 2.6 Rammohun and English Education; 2.7 Conclusion; Works Cited
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Chapter 3: "East Indian" Cosmopolitanism: Henry Derozio's Fakeer of Jungheera and the Birth of Indian Modernity3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Fakeer of Jungheera; 3.3 The Plot or Action; 3.4 The Prefatory Sonnet and Derozio's "Orientalism"; 3.5 Canto I; 3.6 Canto II; 3.7 Critical Reception and Contemporary Readings; 3.8 Derozio and Indian Modernity; 3.9 East Indian Cosmopolitanism; 3.10 Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 4: Michael Madhusudan Dutt: The Prodigal's Progress; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Colonizers and the Colonized; 4.3 The Loss and Recovery of Madhusudan Datta
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4.4 A Prodigal's Progress?4.5 Conclusion: Colonizer, Colonized-or Neither; Works Cited; Chapter 5: Bankim Chandra Chatterjee: Colonialism and National Consciousness in Rajmohan's Wife; 5.1 Introduction: The Paradox of Representation; 5.2 Asia's "First" English Novel?; 5.3 National Culture and Colonialism; 5.4 Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 6: Subjects to Change: Gender Trouble and Women's "Authority"; 6.1 Introduction: The "Women's Question" and Textuality; 6.2 Anandabai, Tarabai, Pandita Ramabai; 6.3 Krupabai and Shevantibai; 6.4 Ramabai Ranade, Clarinda, and Laxmibai
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6.5 Conclusion: Masters of Change?Works Cited; Chapter 7: Re presenting Swami Vivekananda; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 The Life; 7.3 Re presentations; 7.4 Spiritual vs. Historical "Facts"; 7.5 Impact and Significance; Works Cited; Chapter 8: Sarojini Naidu: Reclaiming a Kinship; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 The Life; 8.3 Poetic Reputation; 8.4 Works; 8.5 Re-interpretation; 8.6 Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 9: "Home and the World": Colonialism and Alter nativity in Tagore's India; 9.1 Reworlding Homes; 9.2 Colonialism and Consciousness; 9.3 Some Nineteenth Century Types; 9.4 Rereading Tagore
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9.5 Dominant/Subaltern Alter nativityWorks Cited; Chapter 10: Sri Aurobindo and the Renaissance in India; 10.1 The Orientalist Predicament; 10.2 A Semiology of Gravestones; 10.3 The Renaissance in India?; 10.4 "The Renaissance in India" by Sri Aurobindo; 10.5 Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 11: The "Persistent" Mahatma: Rereading Gandhi Post-Hindutva; 11.1 Remembering Sanatana Dharma; 11.2 The Irrelevance of Gandhi; 11.3 Recuperating Gandhi: A Sanatani Essay; 11.4 Still Searching for Svaraj? Gandhi and a New Global Order; Works Cited; Chapter 12: Conclusion: Usable Pasts, Possible Futures
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DOI:
10.1007/978-94-007-4661-9
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