Making India : colonialism, national culture, and the afterlife of Indian English authority /
Makarand R. Paranjape.
- Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, c2013.
- xiii, 265 p. ; 24 cm.
- Sophia studies in cross-cultural philosophy of traditions and cultures ; 2 .
- Sophia studies in cross-cultural philosophy of traditions and cultures ; 2. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- "Usable pasts": Rammohun Roy's occidentalism -- "East Indian" cosmopolitanism: Henry Derozio's Fakeer of Jungheera and the birth of Indian modernity -- Michael Madhusudan Dutt: the prodigal's progress -- Bankim Chandra Chatterjee: colonialism and national consciousness in Rajmohan's Wife -- Subjects to change: gender trouble and women's "authority" -- Representing Swami Vivekananda -- Sarojini Naidu: reclaiming a kinship -- "Home and the world": colonialism and alternativity in Tagore's India -- Sri Aurobindo and the renaissance in India -- The "persistent" Mahatma: rereading Gandhi Post-Hindutva -- Conclusion: usable pasts, possible futures.