Cosmopolitan Thought Zones: South Asia and the Global Circulation of Ideas [Hardcover]

Examines forms of cosmopolitanism in the high period of South Asian anti-colonialism, 1890-1947. Essays argue that anti-colonial action stemmed not only from a teleological rush to realize the form of nation-states, but from the speculative aspiration to critique and transcend notions of universalism and the ultimate good brought by British rule.Introduction; K.Manjapra PART I: THEORY AND METHODS Is Nationalism a Boon or a Curse?; A.Sen Benjamin in Bengal: Cosmopolitanism and Historical Primacy; S.Tagore Said and the History of Ideas; S.Kaviraj PART II: DIFFERENT UNIVERSALISMS Iqbal on Nietzsche: A Transcultural Dialogue; A.Jalal Different Universalisms, Colorful Cosmopolitanisms: The Global Imagination of the Colonized; S.Bose Gandhi's Printing Press: Indian Ocean Print Cultures and Cosmopolitanims; I.Hofmeyr PART III: MODERNIST THOUGHT ZONES A Local Cosmopolitan: 'Kesari' Balakrishna Pillai and the Invention of Europe for a Modern Kerala; D.Menon The Communist Ecumene and Transcolonial Recognition; K.Manjapra Rethinking (the absence of) Fascism in India, c. 1922-1945; B.Zachariah PART IV: HISTORIES OF CONNECTION A Coloured Cosmopolitanism: Cedric Dover's Reading of the Afro-Asian World; N.Slate Creative India and the World: Bengali Internationalism and Italy in the Interwar Period; M.Prayer On Orientalism and Iconoclasm: German Scholarship's Challenge to the Saidian Model; S.MarchandSUGATA BOSE?is Gardiner Professor of History at Harvard University, USA?and Director of the South Asia Initiative. He is the author of A Hundred Horizons: the Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire (Harvard University Press, 2006.)

KRIS MANJAPRA?is Assistant Professor of History at Tufts University, USA. He was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at UCLA, 2007-2008 after completing his doctoral work at Harvard. Manjapra recently published his first book, M.N. Roy: Marxism and Colonial Cosmopolitanism (Routledge IlÓà