Romantic Nationalism in India

Cultivation of Culture and the Global Circulation of Ideas
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69479-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 31, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: National Cultivation of Culture

Through the concept of ‘Romantic nationalism’, this interdisciplinary global historical study investigates cultural initiatives in (British) India that aimed at establishing the nation as a moral community and which preceded or accompanied state-oriented political nationalism. Drawing on a vast array of sources, it discusses important Romantic nationalist traits, such as the relationship between language and identity, historicism, artistic revivalism and hero worship. Ultimately, this innovative book argues that because of the confrontation with European civilization and processes of modernization at large, cultivation of culture in British India was morally and spiritually more important to the making of the nation than in Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Linden, Bob Van Der

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Preface

List of Figures

Chronology

Map of British India

1 Introduction

1 Romanticism, Indian Tradition and the Nation

2 Romantic Nationalism and the Global Circulation of Ideas

2 Hail to the Mother[land]!

1 Cultivation of Language: The Historical Novel and Mother India

2 Swadeshi and the Soul of the Nation

3 Mother India: Patriotic Songs and Visual Representations

3 Legendary National Heroes

1 James Tod’s Rajput Heroes

2 Hero-Worship beyond Rajputana: From Shivaji to Krishna

3 Remediation in Indian Cinema

4 Aryan, Tamil and Muslim Golden Ages

1 Sanskrit, the Vedas and Aryanism

2 Tamil and the Origins of Man

3 Islam’s Lost Glory

5 National Music, Art and Architecture

1 Music, Classicization and the Nation

2 Painting the Nation: From Raja Ravi Varma to Swadeshi Art and Beyond

3 Revivalist Architecture of the Indian Nation(s)

6 Romantic Revolutions

1 The Return of the King

2 Muhammad Barkatullah’s Global Revolt

3 Mobilization of the Masses: Gandhi and Ambedkar

7 Epilogue

1 The Nation’s Recoil

8 Afterword

Joep Leerssen

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bob van der Linden, Ph.D. (2004), University of Amsterdam, studies modern South Asian cultural history in a global context. His previous publications include Moral Languages from Colonial Punjab (2008), Music and Empire in Britain and India (2013) and Arnold Bake: A Life with South Asian Music (2018).