{"product_id":"passages-through-india-indian-gurus-western-disciples-and-the-politics-of-indophilia-1890-1940-paperback-softback-9781009608800","title":"Passages through India; Indian Gurus, Western Disciples and the Politics of Indophilia, 1890–1940 (Paperback \/ softback) 9781009608800","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePassages through India\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eIndian Gurus, Western Disciples and the Politics of Indophilia, 1890–1940\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnalyses the phenomenon of western Indophilia, its ideological and affective composition, and its political implications in late-colonial British India.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSomak Biswas (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009608800, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 27 February 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e310 pages\u003cbr\u003e23 x 15 x 1.8 cm, 0.48 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Puts flesh on the bones of the familiar trope of the Indian guru and the Western disciple. It is a useful reminder of the important work of 'white solidarity' in reshaping the global image of India for an anti-colonial project. At the same time, it is clear-eyed about the exclusionary effects of relying on Hindu high culture and a politics of respectability.' Mrinalini Sinha, University of Michigan\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePassages 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Section I. Introduction: Indophilia and Its Wider Worlds, 1890–1940\u003cbr\u003e 1. Languages of Longing: Indian Gurus, Western Disciples and the Politics of Letter-Writing\u003cbr\u003e Section II. 2. Home in the World: Indophiles and the Ashram\u003cbr\u003e 3. India, Indophiles and Indenture: Cultural Politics of a Transnational Discourse, 1911–1931\u003cbr\u003e Section III. 4. Practices of Discipleship: Vivekananda and His Women Disciples, 1890–1910\u003cbr\u003e 5. Vedanta and Its Variables: The Politics of a 'World Religion', 1890–1910\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: What Settles After\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Social \u0026amp; cultural history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; cultural history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20history%20%5BHBTB%5D%22\"\u003eHBTB\u003c\/a\u003e], Asian history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Asian history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Asian%20history%20%5BHBJF%5D%22\"\u003eHBJF\u003c\/a\u003e], History [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20%5BHB%5D%22\"\u003eHB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52415669469464,"sku":"9781009608800","price":26.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009608800i.jpg?v=1784421553","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/passages-through-india-indian-gurus-western-disciples-and-the-politics-of-indophilia-1890-1940-paperback-softback-9781009608800","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}