Shyamji Krishnavarma
Sanskrit, Sociology and Anti-Imperialism
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:30th Jun '17
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This book is the first critical biography on Shyamji Krishnavarma � scholar, journalist and national revolutionary who lived in exile outside India from 1897 to 1930. His ideas were crucial in the creation of an extremist wing of anti-imperial nationalism.
The work delves into a fascinating range of issues such as colonialism and knowledge, political violence, cosmopolitanism, and diaspora. Lucidly written, and with an insightful analysis of Krishnavarma�s life and times, this will greatly interest scholars and researchers of modern Indian history, politics, the nationalist movement, as well as the informed lay reader.
‘[An] outstanding and compelling study of the nationalist and revolutionary Shyamji Krishnavarma [that] throws much light on a critical phase of Indian nationalism when [. . .] Indian liberalism was transformed into radicalism and then violent anti-colonialism.’— C. A. Bayly, University of Cambridge, UK
‘[The] book restores debates about the utility of violence to the historiography of Indian nationalist thought [. . .] problematising the binaries of east and west, cosmopolitanism and nationalism, that have ordered recent histories of transnational networks.’ — Kama Maclean, University of New South Wales, Australia
‘Fischer-Tiné paints a compelling portrait of Krishnavarma — intellectual, exile, nationalist revolutionary.’ — David Arnold, University of Warwick, UK
Harald Fischer-Tiné's book is worth reading for many reasons. It is not only giving back a long time forgotten intellectual and revolutionary his historical role, thereby saving him from 'safronisation'. It also widens the understanding of the many facets of the international anti-colonial struggle in the decades before the Great War, at the same time emphasizing its many limitations. — Amit Das Gupta
ISBN: 9781138432239
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 453g
264 pages