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This is a work of South Asian intellectual history written from a
transnational perspective and based on the life and work of M.N.
Roy, one of India's most formidable Marxist intellectuals. Swadeshi
revolutionary, co-founder of the Mexican Communist Party, member of
the Communist International Presidium, and a major force in the
rise of Indian communism, M.N. Roy was a colonial cosmopolitan icon
of the interwar years. Exploring the intellectual production of
this important thinker, this book traces the historical context of
his ideas from 19th-century Bengal to Weimar Germany, through the
tumultuous period of world politics in the 1930s and 1940s, and on
to post-Independence India. In this book the author makes a number
of valuable theoretical contributions. He argues for the importance
of conceiving the 'deterritorial' zones of thought and action
through which Indian anti-colonial political thought operated, and
advances a new periodisation for Swadeshi on this basis. He also
argues against viewing 'international communism' of the 1920s as a
single monolith by highlighting the fractures and contestations
that influenced colonial politics worldwide. A fresh and insightful
perspective on the history of India in the interwar years, this
book will be of great interest to scholars and students of the
modern history of South and East Asia, America and Europe, and to
those interested in anti-colonial struggles, Communist politics and
trajectories of Marxist thought in the 20th century.
This is a work of South Asian intellectual history written from a
transnational perspective and based on the life and work of M.N.
Roy, one of India's most formidable Marxist intellectuals. Swadeshi
revolutionary, co-founder of the Mexican Communist Party, member of
the Communist International Presidium, and a major force in the
rise of Indian communism, M.N. Roy was a colonial cosmopolitan icon
of the interwar years. Exploring the intellectual production of
this important thinker, this book traces the historical context of
his ideas from 19th-century Bengal to Weimar Germany, through the
tumultuous period of world politics in the 1930s and 1940s, and on
to post-Independence India. In this book the author makes a number
of valuable theoretical contributions. He argues for the importance
of conceiving the 'deterritorial' zones of thought and action
through which Indian anti-colonial political thought operated, and
advances a new periodisation for Swadeshi on this basis. He also
argues against viewing 'international communism' of the 1920s as a
single monolith by highlighting the fractures and contestations
that influenced colonial politics worldwide. A fresh and insightful
perspective on the history of India in the interwar years, this
book will be of great interest to scholars and students of the
modern history of South and East Asia, America and Europe, and to
those interested in anti-colonial struggles, Communist politics and
trajectories of Marxist thought in the 20th century.
Kris Manjapra weaves together the study of colonialism over the
past 500 years, across the globe's continents and seas. This
captivating work vividly evokes living human histories, introducing
the reader to manifestations of colonialism as expressed through
war, militarization, extractive economies, migrations and
diasporas, racialization, biopolitical management, and unruly and
creative responses and resistances by colonized peoples. This book
describes some of the most salient political, social, and cultural
constellations of our present times across the Americas, Africa,
Asia, and Europe. By exploring the dissimilar, yet entwined,
histories of conquest, settler colonialism, racial slavery, and
empire, Manjapra exposes the enduring role of colonial force and
freedom struggle in the making of our modern world.
Kris Manjapra weaves together the study of colonialism over the
past 500 years, across the globe's continents and seas. This
captivating work vividly evokes living human histories, introducing
the reader to manifestations of colonialism as expressed through
war, militarization, extractive economies, migrations and
diasporas, racialization, biopolitical management, and unruly and
creative responses and resistances by colonized peoples. This book
describes some of the most salient political, social, and cultural
constellations of our present times across the Americas, Africa,
Asia, and Europe. By exploring the dissimilar, yet entwined,
histories of conquest, settler colonialism, racial slavery, and
empire, Manjapra exposes the enduring role of colonial force and
freedom struggle in the making of our modern world.
Age of Entanglement explores patterns of connection linking German
and Indian intellectuals from the nineteenth century to the years
after the Second World War. Kris Manjapra traces the intersecting
ideas and careers of a diverse collection of individuals from South
Asia and Central Europe who shared ideas, formed networks, and
studied one another's worlds. Moving beyond well-rehearsed
critiques of colonialism toward a new critical approach, this study
recasts modern intellectual history in terms of the knotted
intellectual itineraries of seeming strangers. Collaborations in
the sciences, arts, and humanities produced extraordinary meetings
of German and Indian minds. Meghnad Saha met Albert Einstein,
Stella Kramrisch brought the Bauhaus to Calcutta, and
Girindrasekhar Bose began a correspondence with Sigmund Freud.
Rabindranath Tagore traveled to Germany to recruit scholars for a
new Indian university, and the actor Himanshu Rai hired director
Franz Osten to help establish movie studios in Bombay. These
interactions, Manjapra argues, evinced shared responses to the
cultural and political hegemony of the British empire. Germans and
Indians hoped to find in one another the tools needed to disrupt an
Anglocentric world order. As Manjapra demonstrates, transnational
intellectual encounters are not inherently progressive. From
Orientalism and Aryanism to socialism and scientism, German-Indian
entanglements were neither necessarily liberal nor conventionally
cosmopolitan, often characterized as much by manipulation as by
cooperation. Age of Entanglement underscores the connections
between German and Indian intellectual history, revealing the
characteristics of a global age when the distance separating Europe
and Asia seemed, temporarily, to disappear.
A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery
in the Atlantic world To fully understand why the shadow of slavery
haunts us today, we must confront the flawed way that it ended. We
celebrate abolition - in Haiti after the revolution, in the British
Empire in 1833, in the United States during the Civil War. Yet in
Black Ghost of Empire, acclaimed historian Kris Manjapra argues
that during each of these supposed emancipations, Black people were
dispossessed by the moves that were meant to free them.
Emancipation, in other words, simply codified the existing racial
caste system - rather than obliterating it. Ranging across the
Americas, Europe and Africa, Manjapra unearths disturbing truths
about the Age of Emancipations, 1780-1880. In Britain, reparations
were given to wealthy slaveowners, not the enslaved, a vast debt
that was only paid off in 2015, and the crucial role of Black
abolitionists and rebellions in bringing an end to slavery has been
overlooked. In Jamaica, Black people were liberated only to enter
into an apprenticeship period harsher than slavery itself. In the
American South, the formerly enslaved were 'freed' into a system of
white supremacy and racial terror. Across Africa, emancipation
served as an alibi for colonization. None of these emancipations
involved atonement by the enslavers and their governments for
wrongs committed, or reparative justice for the formerly
enslaved-an omission that grassroots Black organizers and activists
are rightly seeking to address today. Black Ghost of Empire will
rewire readers' understanding of the world in which we live.
Paradigm-shifting, lucid and courageous, this book shines a light
into the enigma of slavery's supposed death, and its afterlives.
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