TY  - BOOK
AU  - Linden, Bob Van Der
TI  - Romantic nationalism in India: Cultivation of Culture and the global circulation of ideas
T2  - National cultivation of culture (Volume 31)
SN  - 9789004694798
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - Brill
KW  - Nationalism -- India -- History -- Civilization -- European influences
KW  - Romanticism -- India
KW  - India -- Civilization -- European influences -- History -- British occupation
KW  - Nationalism -- History -- India
KW  - 1765-1947
N2  - 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
ER  -