000			01781nam a22002297a 4500
005			20250530115429.0
008			250418b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a9781009403160
040			_aSDCL _cSDCL
041			_2eng _aeng
084			_aV2'N R4
100			_aSpoelder, Yorim _9751883
245			_aVisions of greater India : _bTransimperial knowledge and anti-colonial nationalism, c.1800-1960
260			_aNew Delhi : _bCambridge University Press, _c2024.
300			_axiii, 331p.
520			_a'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.
650			_aAnti-imperialist movements -- History -- India _9811142
650			_aIndia -- Intellectual life -- 19th century -- 20th century _9811143
650			_aNationalism -- History -- India _9811144
650			_aOrientalism -- History -- India _9811145
942			_2CC _cTEXL _n0
999			_c1309136 _d1309136