Imagining ‘Greater India’: French and Indian Visions of Colonialism in the Indic Mode

2004/07/01 by Susan Bayly · 107 citations
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Vietnamese History and Culture Studies #Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies #Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis #Vision #Colonialism #Nationalism #Politics #Scope (computer science) #Political science #Gender studies #Focus (optics) #Sociology #History #Anthropology #Law

paper · doi:10.1017/s0026749x04001246

published in Modern Asian Studies 38(3), 703-744 (Cambridge University Press)

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Abstract

This article explores both Western and Asian imaginings of national histories beyond the boundaries of the nation. It seeks to contribute to the history of Asian modernities, and to the anthropological study of nationalism. Its focus is on thinkers and political actors whose visions of both the colonising and decolonising processes were translocal, rather than narrowly territorial in scope.

Citations

• Presidential Address: India Beyond the Ganges—Desultory Reflections on the Origins of Civilization in Southeast Asia
• Nationalist Indian Attitudes Towards Asia: A Troublesome Legacy for Post-Independence Indian Foreign Policy
• The Renaissance of East Indian Culture

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• Greater India [wikipedia]