Passages through India
€47.90
Product Information
| ISBN | 9781009608800 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Publishing Date | 27/02/2025 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €45.19 |
| Tax | €2.71 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €47.90 |
| Availability | 2 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
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.