Book contents
- Visions of Greater India
- Visions of Greater India
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Spelling
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Looking for India in Asia
- Part I The Knowledge Networks of Greater India
- Part II The Interwar Politics of Greater India
- 6 Connecting Orientalism and Internationalism
- 7 Disavowing Indian Exceptionalism
- 8 A New Nalanda in Bolpur
- Conclusion to Part II: Greater India as a Political Discourse in the Interwar Period
- Conclusion
- Epilogue: The Afterlives of Greater India
- Bibliography
- Index
Conclusion
from Part II - The Interwar Politics of Greater India
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 November 2023
- Visions of Greater India
- Visions of Greater India
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Spelling
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Looking for India in Asia
- Part I The Knowledge Networks of Greater India
- Part II The Interwar Politics of Greater India
- 6 Connecting Orientalism and Internationalism
- 7 Disavowing Indian Exceptionalism
- 8 A New Nalanda in Bolpur
- Conclusion to Part II: Greater India as a Political Discourse in the Interwar Period
- Conclusion
- Epilogue: The Afterlives of Greater India
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Visions of Greater India offered a wide-ranging study of the overlapping scholarly and nationalist quest for the legacies of ancient Indian cultural agency in different geographies from the late eighteenth century onwards, and showed that research on the Indian cultural factor in the Far East was often informed by overt assertions or subtle assumptions of Indian civilizational superiority and exceptionalism. This book foregrounded a new generation of Indian intellectuals whose formative study experiences at the Sorbonne in Paris, research trips to the Kern Institute in Leiden, and travels across Asia culminated in the Greater India movement during the mid-1920s. It reconstructed how Calcutta became the South Asian node in a transimperial knowledge network that synchronized the research agendas of the Greater India Society, Indological clusters in Paris and Leiden, the Archaeological Service of the Dutch East Indies in Batavia, and L’École française d’Extrême-Orient in Hanoi. But Greater India was more than a transimperial research paradigm that influenced the framing and interpretation of cultural heritage from the Silk Roads to Central Java.
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- Visions of Greater IndiaTransimperial Knowledge and Anti-Colonial Nationalism, c.1800–1960, pp. 265 - 268Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023