| ID | 043958 |
| Call Number | 824/HAR |
| Title Proper | Disciplines and Movements: Conversations between India and the German-speaking World |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Harder, Hans ; Raina, Dhruv |
| Publication | India, Orient Blackswan, 2022. |
| Description | x ;262pp |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | In India, the modern university as a ‘teaching and examining body’ was set up as an instrument of colonial governmentality in the late nineteenth century. At that time, while many disciplines were still fluid, there was a distinct movement towards the institutionalisation of disciplinary identities in South Asia. Disciplines and Movements studies this historical period till a little after the end of colonialism in India through an exploration of a set of conversations and transnational encounters between Indian and German-speaking intellectuals and academicians at this time. These academics include such important names as Albert Einstein, Girindrasekhar Bose, Sigmund Freud, Swami Vivekananda, and Rabindranath Tagore. These discussions and conversations shaped the contours of disciplines such as psychology and sociology, and of course, in a different way, Indology. Moving away from the customary binary of Eastern and Western knowledge forms, the chapters show how these exchanges helped to shape and define the identity of the modern sciences and social sciences.
Coming from a wide array of disciplines, the chapter authors highlight little-known, yet key aspects of these encounters: the critical role of translation in facilitating - and, at times, distorting - flows of knowledge; exchanges between Indian and German/Austrian scientists between the two World Wars; German disciplinary engagements with India in the fields of sociology, psychology, and media theory; and the extent and nature of the closeness of Indian and German thought in relation to fascism and National Socialism.
This interesting volume on a relatively little explored subject will be valuable to students and scholars of sociology. German studies, Indology, cultural studies, and disciplinary histories and history of ideas. |
| Contents | Preface
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Sociological Entanglements: Max Weber's Comparative Engagement with India
3. The German Connection in Indian Aeronautical Science and Technology
4. Late Colonial India and Weimar Germany: Physicists in Conversation
5. Sheldon Pollock and German Indology
6. Falling into a Brown Study: Volkisch Nationalism, Indo-Nazism, and Historical Translations
7. Ideas of Indian Philosophy in Nineteenth-century Germany: Vivekananda, Deussen, and Garbe
8. The Post-Historical Subject as Project: Some Communicological Reflections
9. Indo-German/German-Indian Encounters in the Psychological Sciences
10. Colonial Bilinguality in Dialogue: Girindrasekhar Bose Manoeuvring His Readers, Indian Traditions, and Freud
Notes on the Contributors
Index |
| Standard Number | 9789354421808 |
| Price. Qualification | 1115/-(PB) |
| Classification Number | 824 |