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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Protestant and Catholic Champions and Their Visions of India
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Breaking Out of the Iron Cage
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The Radicalization of Germany’s India
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“Myers’s work adds to a large body of studies that explore the Western construction of India, with no shortage among them examining ‘Germany’s India.’ … This book is highly recommended for advanced students and working scholars with a deep interest in German Indology and Germanic cross-cultural studies.” (Herman Tull, Religious Studies Review, Vol. 41 (3), September, 2015)
'Indian studies have hitherto tended to pigeonhole Germany's Second Reich as a precursor to the Third Reich and its xenophobic agenda. Perry Myers' exhaustively researched and compelling study offers, however, a much more differentiated account of this culturally and politically unstable time period in Germany's history by analyzing how a constructed India provided stable models of belief and spirituality, and consequently a renewed sense of history and progress at a time of intense, debilitating colonial competition.' - Kamakshi P. Murti, Professor Emerita of German, Middlebury College, USA'Perry Myers's book is a fascinating survey of Germany's love affair with India from 1871 to World War I. It explores the many ways that Germany's India experts tried to use the Orient to rejuvenate their own nation and represents an important addition to our growing knowledge of German Orientalism.' - Corinna Treitel, Associate Professor of History, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: German Visions of India, 1871–1918
Book Subtitle: Commandeering the Holy Ganges during the Kaiserreich
Authors: Perry Myers
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137316929
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Perry Myers 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-29971-0Published: 07 March 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-45290-3Published: 07 March 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31692-9Published: 07 March 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 259
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: European History, Modern History, History of Germany and Central Europe, Asian History, History of Philosophy, Cultural History