Transcultural encounters between Germany and India: kindred spirits in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

"Providing a comprehensive survey of cutting edge scholarship in the field of German-Indian and South Asian Studies, Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India looks at the history of German-Indian relations in the spheres of culture, politics, and intellectual life. Combining transnati...

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Other Authors: Cho, Joanne Miyang (Editor) , Kurlander, Eric (Editor) , McGetchin, Douglas T. (Editor)
Format: Edited Volume
Language:English
Published: London New York, NY Routledge 2014
Series:Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia 90
In: Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia (90)

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Online Access:Verlag, Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz400519380inh.htm
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Author Notes:edited by Joanne Miyang Cho, Eric Kurlander, and Douglas T. McGetchin
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction Joanne Miyang Cho, Eric Kurlander, and Douglas T. McGetchin
  • Fostering aesthetic tolerance through literary translation : Georg Forster's Sakuntala Madhuvanti Karyekar
  • India and Hegel's "scientific" method in the phenomenology of spirit Nicholas Germana
  • Claims and disclaimers : Schopenhauer and the cross-cultural comparative enterprise Sai Bhatawadekar
  • Rudolf Steiner and the theosophy of greed Jared Poley
  • The redemption of the scientist : Richard Garbe as a chronicler of India Joydeep Bagchee and Vishwa P. Adluri
  • German travelers to India at the fin-de-siècle and their ambivalent views of the Raj Perry Myers
  • Germans in India between Kaiserreich and the end of World War II Joachim Osterheld
  • Cross-cultural transfer and Indophilia in Count Hermann Keyserling Joanne Miyang Cho
  • Asian anti-imperialism and leftist antagonism in Weimar Germany Douglas T. McGetchin
  • Indian political activities in Germany, 1914-1945 Benjamin Zachariah
  • The orientalist roots of National Socialism? : Nazism, occultism, and South Asian spirituality, 1919-1945 Eric Kurlander
  • The melancholy of the thinking racist : India and the ambiguities of race in the work of Hans F.K. Günther Lucia Staiano-Daniels
  • West Germany's India policy 1949 to 1972 Amit Das Gupta
  • East meets East : Fritz Bennewitz's theatrical journeys from the GDR to India Joerg Esleben
  • The passion of Paul Hacker : Indology, orientalism, and evangelism Joydeep Bagchee and Vishwa P. Adluri.