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'Greater India' and the Indian Expansionist Imagination, c. 1885-1965 - The Rise and Decline of the Idea of a Lost Hindu Empire (Hardcover)
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'Greater India' and the Indian Expansionist Imagination, c. 1885-1965 - The Rise and Decline of the Idea of a Lost Hindu Empire (Hardcover)
Series: The Politics of Historical Thinking
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This book is the first systematic study of the genealogy,
discursive structures, and political implications of the concept of
'Greater India', implying a Hindu colonization of Southeast Asia,
and used by extension to argue for a past Indian greatness as a
colonial power, reproducible in the present and future. From the
1880s to the 1960s, protagonists of the Greater India theme
attempted to make a case for the importance of an expansionist
Indian civilisation in civilizing Southeast Asia. The argument was
extended to include Central Asia, Africa, North and South America,
and other regions where Indian migrants were to be found. The
advocates of this Indocentric and Hindu revivalist approach, with
Hindu and Indian often taken to be synonymous, were involved in a
quintessentially parochial project, despite its apparently
international dimensions: to justify an Indian expansionist
imagination that viewed India's past as a colonizer and civilizer
of other lands as a model for the restoration of that past
greatness in the future. Zabarskaite shows that the crucial
ideologues and elements used for the formation of the construct of
Greater India can be traced to the svadesi movement of the turn of
the century, and that Greater India moved easily between the
domains of the scholarly and the popular as it sought to establish
itself as a form of nationalist self-assertion.
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