| Portion of title |
Transimperial knowledge and anti-colonial nationalism, c.1800-1960 |
| Contents |
Introduction : looking for India in Asia -- Shifting horizons : Buddhist archaeology and the quest for Serindia -- Finding India in Southeast Asia : early Indocentric approaches -- Transimperial knowledge networks and the research paradigm of greater India -- British India and the quest for a new orientalism : the Greater India Society -- 'Colonial art' and the reconfiguration of aesthetic space -- Epilogue : the knowledge networks of greater India in the postcolonial era -- Connecting orientalism and internationalism : Tagore, Indian Asianism and the historical imagination -- Disawoving Indian exceptionalism : Sarkar, 'modern greater India' and the Hindu nationalist imagination -- 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. |
| Abstract |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | History |
| LCCN | 2023026504 |
| ISBN | 9781009403160 |
| ISBN | 1009403168 |
| ISBN | 9781009403191 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1009403192 |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
