Passages through India : Indian gurus, Western disciples and the politics of Indophilia, 1890-1940 /
Passages Through India offers a study of the phenomenon of Western Indophilia: romanticised engagements around Hindu ideas of India. It argues that affective practices cultivated between major Indian guru-figures (Gandhi, Tagore and Vivekananda) and their white disciples serviced a larger politics o...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2023
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : 2023 |
| Series: | Global South Asians
Global South Asians |
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| Summary: | Passages Through India offers a study of the phenomenon of Western Indophilia: romanticised engagements around Hindu ideas of India. It argues that affective practices cultivated between major Indian guru-figures (Gandhi, Tagore and Vivekananda) and their white disciples serviced a larger politics of respectability, tied to exigencies of Indian cultural and nationalist politics. Indophile deployments in transnational projects like the abolition of indentured labour and global Hinduism, while anti-colonial, were not quite emancipatory. Such deployments - in Africa, America, Fiji and India - frequently reproduced deep hierarchies around race, class, caste and gender. Unifying distinct strands of western discipleship within a shared tradition of Indophilia, Passages Through India offers a new methodological framework that situates self and subjectivity as central to processes of global mobility and migration |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Jun 2023) |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 291 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) 1 online resource (xvii, 291 pages) 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 1009337963 9781009337960 (ebook) 9781009337960 |
| Access: | Cambridge Multi-User Restricted for use by site license. |