Investigating the growth of Indology (the study of East Indian texts, literature, and culture) and the diffusion of this knowledge about ancient India within nineteenth-century Germany, this work contextualizes approaches to contact by historically grounding them in a contemporary history of German culture, education, and science. It answers the historical anomaly of why Germany had more nineteenth-century experts in the academic discipline of Indology than all other European powers combined. German interest in ancient India developed because it was useful for widely varying German projects,...
Investigating the growth of Indology (the study of East Indian texts, literature, and culture) and the diffusion of this knowledge about ancient India...
Joanne Miyang Cho Eric Kurlander Douglas T. McGetchin
Providing a comprehensive survey of cutting edge scholarship in the field of German-Indian and South Asian Studies," " "Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India "looks at the history of German-Indian relations in the spheres of culture, politics, and intellectual life. Combining transnational, post-colonial, and comparative approaches, the book first examines the ways in which nineteenth century "Indomania" figured in the creation of both German national identity and modern German scholarship on the Orient, illustrating how German encounters with India in the Imperial era...
Providing a comprehensive survey of cutting edge scholarship in the field of German-Indian and South Asian Studies," " "Transcultural Encounters be...
This volume provides new insights into gendered interactions over the past two centuries between Germany and Asia, including India, China, Japan, and previously overlooked Asian countries including Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, and Korea.
This volume provides new insights into gendered interactions over the past two centuries between Germany and Asia, including India, China, Japan, and ...