Visions of Greater India Spoelder Hardback Cambridge University Press

Visions of Greater India\n\nTransimperial Knowledge and Anti-Colonial Nationalism, c.1800\u20131960\n\nShows how the transimperial knowledge networks of 'Greater India' energized the interwar nationalist, internationalist and anti-colonial imagination in British India.\n\nYorim Spoelder (Author)\n\n9781009403160, Cambridge University Press\n\nHardback, published 23 November 2023\n\n346 pages\n23.5 x 15.5 x 2.1 cm, 0.69 kg\n\n'Visions of Greater India is a compelling treatise on the way hypotheses and theories about the past get internalized as narratives of national pride in the present. The example of India as 'great' - geographically, spiritually, and culturally - is a case in point and is likely to become a model for analyses of how other nation-states construe their greatness.' Soni Wadhwa, Asian Review of Books\n\n'Greater India' was a transimperial, Indocentric research paradigm that informed the colonial recovery of the ancient past in Central and Southeast Asia. Ancient India]