Making India: colonialism, national culture, and the afterlife of Indian English authority
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 na...
| Summary: | 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 |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9400746601 |