Yorim Spoelder

Visions of Greater India

Transimperial Knowledge and Anti-Colonial Nationalism, c.1800-1960

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Produktbeschreibung

Brings together three stories usually told apart: the archaeological recovery of a 'lost' Buddhist past on the Silk Roads, projects of colonial archaeology in Southeast Asia and the history of interwar British India. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 345
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009403191
• ISBN-10: 1009403192
• Artikelnr.: 73310754

Autorenporträt

Yorim Spoelder is a postdoctoral fellow at Freie Universität Berlin.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Looking for India in Asia
Part I. The knowledge networks of Greater India: 1. Shifting horizons: Buddhist archaeology and the quest for Serindia
2. Finding India in Southeast Asia: Early Indocentric approaches
3. Transimperial knowledge networks and the research paradigm of Greater India
4. British India and the quest for a new Orientalism: The Greater India Society
5. 'Colonial art' and the reconfiguration of aesthetic space
Epilogue: The knowledge networks of Greater India in the postcolonial era
Part II. The interwar politics of Greater India: 6. Connecting Orientalism and internationalism: Tagore, Indian Asianism and the historical imagination
7. Disawoving Indian exceptionalism: Sarkar, 'Modern Greater India' and the Hindu nationalist imagination
8. A new Nalanda in Bolpur: Visva-Bharati and the quest for a global humanism
Conclusion: Greater India as a political discourse in the interwar period
Conclusion
Epilogue: The afterlives of Greater India
Bibliography
Index.