Cosmopolitan Modernity in Early 20th-Century India
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Cosmopolitan Modernity in Early 20th-Century India

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eBook - ePub

Cosmopolitan Modernity in Early 20th-Century India

About this book

This book presents an alternative view of cosmopolitanism, citizenship and modernity in early 20th-century India through the multiple lenses of mysticism, travel, friendship, art, and politics. It makes a key intervention in the understanding of cosmopolitan modernity based on the lives and experiences of Rabindranath Tagore, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Sri Aurobindo, Mirra Alfassa, James Cousins, Paul Richard, Dilip Kumar Roy, and Taraknath Das. Using archival texts and photographs, Mohanty interrogates the ideas of tradition and modernity, the local and the global, and Self and the world as integral to the conception of a cosmopolitan world order.

This second edition will interest scholars and students of modern Indian history, comparative literature, cultural studies, Indian philosophy, and South Asian studies and the general reader.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge India
Year
2018
eBook ISBN
9780429015502
Edition
2
Topic
History
Subtopic
21st Century History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Plates
  7. Prologue to this Edition: Cosmopolitanism Revisited
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Introduction: Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Citizenship
  11. One Celtic Twilight: The Eastern Journey of James Cousins
  12. Two Utopian Longings and the French Connection: Paul Richard and the Politics of Friendship
  13. Three Yoga for a New World: Dilip Kumar Roy and Sri Aurobindo
  14. Four ‘The World in a Nest’: The Cosmopolitanism of Rabindranath Tagore
  15. Five Cosmopolitanism through the Arts: The Art Criticism of Ananda Coomaraswamy and Sri Aurobindo
  16. Six The Revolutionary as the Cosmopolitan: The Many Lives of Taraknath Das
  17. Conclusion
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index