Cosmopolitan thought zones : South Asia and the global circulation of ideas / edited by Sugata Bose and Kris Manjapra. - 1st ed. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. - xi, 307 p. ; 23 cm. - Palgrave Macmillan transnational history series . - Palgrave Macmillan transnational history series. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-294) and index.

Is nationalism a boon or a curse? / Amartya Sen -- Benjamin in Bengal: cosmopolitanism and historical primacy / Saranindranath Tagore -- Said and the history of ideas / Sudipta Kaviraj -- Iqbal on Nietzsche: a transcultural dialogue / Ayesha Jalal -- Different universalisms, colorful cosmopolitanisms: the global imagination of the colonized / Sugata Bose -- Gandhi's printing press: Indian Ocean print cultures and cosmopolitanisms / Isabel Hofmeyr -- A local cosmopolitan: 'Kesari' Balakrishna Pillai and the invention of Europe for a modern Kerala / Dilip M. Menon -- Communist internationalism and transcolonial recognition / Kris Manjapra -- Rethinking (the absence of) Fascism in India, c. 1922-45 / Benjamin Zachariah -- A colored cosmopolitanism: Cedric Dover's reading of the Afro-Asian world / Nico Slate -- Creative India and the world: Bengali internationalism and Italy in the interwar period / Mario Prayer -- On Orientalism and iconoclasm: German scholarship's challenge to the Saidian model / Suzanne Marchand.

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Cosmopolitanism--South Asia.
Cosmopolitanism.
Intellectual life.
Geistesleben.
Internationalismus.


South Asia--Intellectual life--20th century.
South Asia--Intellectual life--19th century.
South Asia.
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