Cosmopolitan Modernity in Early 20th-Century India

Taylor & Francis

Cosmopolitan Modernity in Early 20th-Century IndiaAuthor(s): Sachidananda Mohanty\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge India\nISBN-13: 9781138859333, 978-1138859333\nSynopsis\nThis book presents an alternative view of cosmopolitanism, citizenship and modernity in early 20th-century India through the multiple lenses of mysticism, travel, friendship, art, and [url] makes a key intervention in the understanding of cosmopolitan modernity based on the lives and experiences of Rabindranath Tagore, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Sri Aurobindo, Mirra Alfassa, James Cousins, Paul Richard, Dilip Kumar Roy, and Taraknath Das. Using archival texts and photographs, Mohanty interrogates the ideas of tradition and modernity, the local and the global, and Self and the world as integral to the conception of a cosmopolitan world order.\n\nThe volume will interest scholars and students of modern Indian history, comparative literature, cultural studies, Indian.