Author: Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
The Dawn and Dawn Society's Magazine
Author: ‘Greater India’ and the Indian Expansionist Imagination, c. 1885–1965
Author: Jolita ZabarskaitėPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110986337
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This book is the first systematic study of the genealogy, discursive structures, and political implications of the concept of ‘Greater India’, implying a Hindu colonization of Southeast Asia, and used by extension to argue for a past Indian greatness as a colonial power, reproducible in the present and future. From the 1880s to the 1960s, protagonists of the Greater India theme attempted to make a case for the importance of an expansionist Indian civilisation in civilizing Southeast Asia. The argument was extended to include Central Asia, Africa, North and South America, and other regions where Indian migrants were to be found. The advocates of this Indocentric and Hindu revivalist approach, with Hindu and Indian often taken to be synonymous, were involved in a quintessentially parochial project, despite its apparently international dimensions: to justify an Indian expansionist imagination that viewed India’s past as a colonizer and civilizer of other lands as a model for the restoration of that past greatness in the future. Zabarskaite shows that the crucial ideologues and elements used for the formation of the construct of Greater India can be traced to the svadeśī movement of the turn of the century, and that Greater India moved easily between the domains of the scholarly and the popular as it sought to establish itself as a form of nationalist self-assertion.
The Calcutta Gazette
Author: Luzac & Co.'s Oriental List
Author: Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society
Author: Kansas State Historical SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
The Origins of the National Education Movement (1905-1910)
Author: Haridas MukherjeePublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
The Chronicle of the London Missionary Society
Author: Beyond Nationalist Frames
Author: Sumit SarkarPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253342034
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The political context in which historians of India find themselves today, says Sumit Sarkar, is dominated by the advance of the Hindu Right and globalized forms of capitalism, while the historian's intellectual context is dominated by the marginalization of all varieties of Marxism and an academic shift to cultural studies and postmodern critique. In Beyond Nationalist Frames, one of India's foremost contemporary historians offers his view of how the craft of history should be practiced in this complex conjuncture. In studies of colonial time-keeping, Rabindranath Tagore's fiction, and pre-Independence Bengal, Sarkar explores new approaches to the writing of history. Essays on contemporary politics consider the implications of the "Hindu Bomb," the rewriting of national history textbooks by Hindu fundamentalists, and the issue of conversion to Christianity. Scholars in all the fields touched by recent developments in South Asian historiography—anthropology, feminist theory, comparative literature, cultural studies—will find this a stimulating and provocative collection of essays, as will anyone interested in Indian politics.
The Origins of the National Education Movement, 1905-1910
Author: Haridāsa MukhopādhyāẏaPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Suscribing to Faith? The Anglican Parish Magazine 1859-1929
Author: Jane PlattPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137362448
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
This book reveals the huge sales and propagandist potential of Anglican parish magazines, while demonstrating the Anglican Church's misunderstanding of the real issues at its heart, and its collective collapse of confidence as it contemplated social change.