Age of entanglement : German and Indian intellectuals across empire / / Kris Manjapra

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789153103321
• Autore: Manjapra Kris <1978->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : Harvard University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-674-72746-0; 0-674-72631-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (454 p.)
• Collana: Harvard Historical Studies ; ; 183
• Disciplina: 303.48/243054
• Soggetti: Learning and scholarship - India - History - 19th century; Learning and scholarship - India - History - 20th century; Learning and scholarship - Germany - History - 19th century; Learning and scholarship - Germany - History - 20th century; India Intellectual life 19th century; India Intellectual life 20th century; Germany Intellectual life 19th century; Germany Intellectual life 20th century; India Relations Germany; Germany Relations India
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Note on Style and Transliteration -- Introduction -- I Stages of Entanglement -- II Fields of Encounter -- Epilogue -- NOTES -- Glossary of Bengali and German Names and Keywords -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Age of Entanglement explores the patterns of connection linking German and Indian intellectuals from the nineteenth century to the years after the Second World War. Kris Manjapra traces the intersecting ideas and careers of philologists, physicists, poets, economists, and others who shared ideas, formed networks, and studied one another's worlds. Moving beyond well-rehearsed critiques of colonialism, this ; study recasts modern intellectual history in terms of the knotted intellectual itineraries of seeming strangers. Collaborations in the sciences, arts, and humanities produced extraordinary meetings of German and Indian minds. Meghnad Saha met Albert Einstein, Stella Kramrisch brought the Bauhaus to Calcutta, and Girindrasekhar Bose began a correspondence with Sigmund Freud. Rabindranath Tagore traveled to Germany to recruit scholars for a new university, and Himanshu Rai worked with Franz Osten to establish movie studios in Bombay. These interactions, Manjapra argues, evinced shared responses to the hegemony of the British empire. Germans and Indians hoped to find in one another the tools needed to disrupt an Anglocentric world order. As Manjapra demonstrates, transnational encounters are not inherently progressive. From Orientalism to Aryanism to scientism, German-Indian entanglements were neither necessarily liberal nor conventionally cosmopolitan, often characterized as much by manipulation as by genuine cooperation.