Cosmopolitan Thought Zones: South Asia and the Global Circulation of Ideas

Examines forms of cosmopolitanism in the high period of South Asian anti-colonialism, 1890-1947. Essays argue that anti-colonial action stemmed not only from a teleological rush to realize the form of nation-states, but from the speculative aspiration to critique and transcend notions of universalism and the ultimate good brought by British rule.

Author: S. Bose
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 05/26/2010
Pages: 322
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780230243378

About the Author
SUGATA BOSE is Gardiner Professor of History at Harvard University, USA and Director of the South Asia Initiative. He is the author of A Hundred Horizons: the Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire (Harvard University Press, 2006.)

KRIS MANJAPRA is Assistant Professor of History at Tufts University, USA. He was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at UCLA, 2007-2008 after completing his doctoral work at Harvard. Manjapra recently published his first book, M.N. Roy: Marxism and Colonial Cosmopolitanism (Routledge India, 2009).

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