Age of Entanglement: German and Indian Intellectuals across Empire (Harvard Historical Studies) Book Information:

Age of Entanglement explores patterns of connection linking German and Indian intellectuals from the nineteenth century to the years after the Second World War. Kris Manjapra traces the intersecting ideas and careers of a diverse collection of individuals from South Asia and Central Europe who shared ideas, formed networks and studied one another's worlds. Moving beyond well-rehearsed critiques of colonialism towards a new critical approach, this study recasts modern intellectual history in terms of the knotted intellectual itineraries of seeming strangers.Collaborations in the sciences, arts and humanities produced extraordinary meetings of German and Indian minds. Meghnad Saha met Albert Einstein, Stella Kramrisch brought the Bauhaus to Calcutta and Girindrasekhar Bose began a correspondence with Sigmund Freud. Rabindranath Tagore traveled to Germany to recruit scholars for a new Indian university and the actor Himanshu Rai hired director Franz Osten to help establish movie studios in Bombay. These interactions, Manjapra argues, evinced shared responses to the cultural and political hegemony of the British empire. Germans and Indians hoped to find in one another the tools needed to disrupt an Anglocentric world order.As Manjapra demonstrates, transnational intellectual encounters are not inherently progressive. From Orientalism and Aryanism to socialism and scientism, GermanIndian entanglements were neither necessarily liberal nor conventionally cosmopolitan, often characterized as much by manipulation as by cooperation. Age of Entanglement underscores the connections between German and Indian intellectual history, revealing the characteristics of a global age when the distance separating Europe and Asia seemed, temporarily, to disappear.Table of Contents:Introduction Stages of Entanglement German Servants of the British Raj Indian Subjects beyond the British Empire German Visions of an Asianate Europe Indian Visions of a Germanic HomeFields of Encounter The Physical Cosmos International Economies Marxist Totality Geocultural Wholes The Psychoanalytic Universe Worlds of Artistic Expression A New Order Epilogue Notes Glossary of Bengali and German Names and Keywords Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

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Higher Education Textbooks

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Paperback

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English

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067472514X

• Age of Entanglement: German and Indian Intellectuals across Empire (Harvard Historical Studies) Published On :

10 May 2015

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