Another Asia Rabindranath Tagore and Okakura Tenshin

by Bharucha, Rustom

• ISBN13: 9780195682854
• ISBN10: 0195682858
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-19
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book elaborates on the ideals of Asia brought about by the meeting of Rabindranath Tagore and Okakura Tenshin in Calcutta in 1902.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Preface	xiv
Prologue	1	(9)
1. Asia	10	(41)
What is Asia?	10	(6)
One Asia	16	(4)
The Nation as Museum	20	(4)
Implicit Hierarchies	24	(5)
The Awakening of the East	29	(5)
Encountering Nivedita	34	(5)
Problematizing the Postcolonial	39	(4)
The Complication of Beauty	43	(8)
2. Nationalism	51	(61)
The Enigma of Silence	51	(4)
Swadeshi Samaj	55	(7)
Gora's Bharatbarsha	62	(3)
Negotiating 'Nothing'	65	(2)
Against Nationalism	67	(3)
Reorienting the Orient	70	(6)
Crisis in 'Civilization'	76	(7)
Grounds for Misunderstanding	83	(5)
Discriminating the Modern	88	(6)
Homage to the West	94	(4)
'Our History'	98	(7)
Countering Tagore	105	(7)
3. Cosmopolitanism	112	(35)
Asian Cosmopolitans	112	(2)
Reclaiming Cosmopolitanism	114	(5)
The Subaltern 'Cosmopolitan'	119	(4)
Negotiating Privilege	123	(3)
Cultural Property, or toot?	126	(4)
Cosmopolitics of Dress and Language	130	(8)
The Cosmopolitan in Exile	138	(9)
4. Friendship	147	(29)
The Intertexts of Love	142	(8)
Beyond Masculinity	150	(4)
Homosociality in Context	154	(5)
Modalities of Friendship	159	(4)
Foreign Friends	163	(4)
War and Friendship	167	(9)
Epilogue	176	(5)
Notes	181	(36)
References	217	(8)
Index	225