| Cosmopolitan Modernity in Early 20th-Century India Contributor(s): Mohanty, Sachidananda (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138557544 ISBN-13: 9781138557543 Publisher: Routledge Chapman & Hall OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Modern - 21st Century - History | Asia - India & South Asia - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Physical Information: 174 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 21st Century - Cultural Region - Indian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book presents an alternative view of cosmopolitanism, citizenship and modernity in early 20th-century India through the multiple lenses of mysticism, travel, friendship, art, and politics. It makes a key intervention in the understanding of cosmopolitan modernity based on the lives and experiences of Rabindranath Tagore, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Sri Aurobindo, Mirra Alfassa, James Cousins, Paul Richard, Dilip Kumar Roy, and Taraknath Das. Using archival texts and photographs, Mohanty interrogates the ideas of tradition and modernity, the local and the global, and Self and the world as integral to the conception of a cosmopolitan world order. This second edition will interest scholars and students of modern Indian history, comparative literature, cultural studies, Indian philosophy, and South Asian studies and the general reader. |
