{"product_id":"visions-of-greater-india-transimperial-knowledge-and-anti-colonial-nationalism-c-1800-1960-paperback-softback-9781009403191","title":"Visions of Greater India; Transimperial Knowledge and Anti-Colonial Nationalism, c.1800–1960 (Paperback \/ softback) 9781009403191","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eVisions of Greater India\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTransimperial Knowledge and Anti-Colonial Nationalism, c.1800–1960\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShows how the transimperial knowledge networks of 'Greater India' energized the interwar nationalist, internationalist and anti-colonial imagination in British India.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eYorim Spoelder (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009403191, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 22 May 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e346 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.501 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'Visions of Greater India is a compelling treatise on the way hypotheses and theories about the past get internalized as narratives of national pride in the present. The example of India as 'great' - geographically, spiritually, and culturally - is a case in point and is likely to become a model for analyses of how other nation-states construe their greatness.' Soni Wadhwa, Asian Review of Books\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Greater India' was a transimperial, Indocentric research paradigm that informed the colonial recovery of the ancient past in Central and Southeast Asia. Ancient India was postulated as the fount of an expansive classicism – an actor in world history on a par with ancient Greece and Rome. Under the Greater India movement, the scholarly quest for 'India in Asia' became tied to anti-colonial, pedagogical, nationalist and Asianist agendas. Yet although it provided a potent anti-colonial imaginary, the movement also bolstered visions of Indian exceptionalism and energized Hindu nationalist ideas of India as a civilizing, colonizing power. Speaking directly to debates that define and divide India today, this is essential reading for those interested in the legacies of Orientalist scholarship and interwar visions of Indian internationalism. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: Looking for India in Asia\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The knowledge networks of Greater India: 1. Shifting horizons: Buddhist archaeology and the quest for Serindia\u003cbr\u003e 2. Finding India in Southeast Asia: Early Indocentric approaches\u003cbr\u003e 3. Transimperial knowledge networks and the research paradigm of Greater India\u003cbr\u003e 4. British India and the quest for a new Orientalism: The Greater India Society\u003cbr\u003e 5. 'Colonial art' and the reconfiguration of aesthetic space\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: The knowledge networks of Greater India in the postcolonial era\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The interwar politics of Greater India: 6. Connecting Orientalism and internationalism: Tagore, Indian Asianism and the historical imagination\u003cbr\u003e 7. Disawoving Indian exceptionalism: Sarkar, 'Modern Greater India' and the Hindu nationalist imagination\u003cbr\u003e 8. A new Nalanda in Bolpur: Visva-Bharati and the quest for a global humanism\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Greater India as a political discourse in the interwar period\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: The afterlives of Greater India\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: 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]\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":52507392475416,"sku":"9781009403191","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009403191i.jpg?v=1786445651","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/visions-of-greater-india-transimperial-knowledge-and-anti-colonial-nationalism-c-1800-1960-paperback-softback-9781009403191","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}