Manu Bhagavan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1076763 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manu Bhagavan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manu |
| FAMILY NAME | Bhagavan |
| SIGNATURE | BHAGAVAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reflections on Indian Internationalism and a Postnational Global Order
Bhagavan's article examines Mahatma Gandhi's ideas on nationalism, internationalism, and cosmopolitanism in the interwar period of the twentieth century. It argues that Gandhi was ultimately a progressive internationalist who sought to rally the world around the concept of a postnational global order
Aishwary Kumar. Radical Equality
In a recent essay (“Rights vs. Duties,” Boston Review 41, no. 3 [2016]: 42–47), Samuel Moyn calls attention to the urgent need for a renewed focus on the idea of “duties” in history, juxtaposing a lacuna on that topic with what he sees as an overemphasis on the study of “human rights” over the last several decades. Rights and duties go hand in hand, inasmuch as every right suggests correlative obligations, yet there has been no corresponding publ…
War and Peace
Ramnarayan S. Rawat. Reconsidering Untouchability
For all of the innovation that Subaltern Studies, with its mission to write history from below, has brought to the study of the South Asian past, relatively few works have as yet centered on the history of Dalits, those “broken to pieces” by the cruelties of the so-called caste system. This book, an important corrective, helps us “reconsider untouchability,” as the title indicates, not only by bringing to light little-known stories of Dalit life …
Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond
Cultures of Servitude
Cultures of Servitude: Modernity, Domesticity, and Class in India, by Raka Ray and Seemin Qayum, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2009, x + 272 pp., $25.00, ISBN: 9780804760720 This is a bo
A New Hope
This paper explores India's role in the development and design of the United Nations (UN), refracted through the Commission that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Through an analysis of sovereignty, citizenship, nationality and human rights from the 1940s to 1956, the paper discusses what India hoped the UN to be, and more generally what they intended for the new world order and for themselves. The paper challenges existing inter…
Indian Secularism (review)
Reviewed by: Indian Secularism Manu Bhagavan Indian Secularism. By Shabnum Tejani. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. Contemporary world events, from the rise of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, to the dominance of the religious right in U.S. politics, from the pogrom against Muslims in the western Indian state of Gujarat in 2002 to the attacks on Shias in Pakistan, all seem to point out the need for a deep rooted intellectual re-engagement wi…
Princely states and the making of modern India
This article examines discussions that took place regarding princely states at the moment of transition from colonial to postcolonial India. It argues for a rethinking of Nehru's vision for ‘the integration of states’, locating his intellectual position in his broader concerns with the United Nations and a framework of international rights. For Nehru, the relationship between princely states and independent India existed reciprocally with that be…
Princely States and the Hindu Imaginary
In the early twentieth century, Hindutva, or Hindu nationalism, was a philosophy premised on exclusivist notions of "nation-ness" and "nation-state-ness." India, proponents claimed, had since the earliest times been the pitrabhumi and the punyabhumi of Hindus—their fatherland and holy land. This ideal realm was corrupted by Muslim and Christian "invaders," foreigners who defiled and split asunder "Akhand Hindustan," the one India of Hindus. In th…
The Rebel Academy
In recent analyses of nationalism in colonial South Asia, Partha Chatterjee and Tanika Sarkar, among others, have argued that as a result of colonial domination in the "public sphere"-the realm of the state and civil society-Indian male nationalists deployed the "private sphere"-the realm of the home-as the discursive site of anticolonial nationalist imaginaries. The internal space of the home was "the one sphere where improvement could be made t…
(Mis)Representing Economy
Research Article| August 01 2001 (Mis)Representing Economy: Western Media Production and the Impoverishment of South Asia Manu Bhagavan; Manu Bhagavan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Faisal Bari Faisal Bari Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2001) 21 (1-2): 99–109. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-21-1-2-99 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon S…
Demystifying the 'Ideal Progressive
Current scholarship is replete with the praises of princely Baroda, the 'ideal and progressive' state which emerged and prospered under the enlightened rule of Maharaja Sayaji Rao Gaekwad III in the early twentieth century. For example, V. B. Kulkarni notes in his Princely India and Lapse of British Paramountcy that 'It is . . . enough to end this heart-warming story of wise princely governments by recalling the achievements of Sayajirao of Barod…
A New Hope
This paper explores India's role in the development and design of the United Nations (UN), refracted through the Commission that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Through an analysis of sovereignty, citizenship, nationality and human rights from the 1940s to 1956, the paper discusses what India hoped the UN to be, and more generally what they intended for the new world order and for themselves. The paper challenges existing inter…
Demystifying the 'Ideal Progressive
Current scholarship is replete with the praises of princely Baroda, the 'ideal and progressive' state which emerged and prospered under the enlightened rule of Maharaja Sayaji Rao Gaekwad III in the early twentieth century. For example, V. B. Kulkarni notes in his Princely India and Lapse of British Paramountcy that 'It is . . . enough to end this heart-warming story of wise princely governments by recalling the achievements of Sayajirao of Barod…
Princely States and the Hindu Imaginary
In the early twentieth century, Hindutva, or Hindu nationalism, was a philosophy premised on exclusivist notions of "nation-ness" and "nation-state-ness." India, proponents claimed, had since the earliest times been the pitrabhumi and the punyabhumi of Hindus—their fatherland and holy land. This ideal realm was corrupted by Muslim and Christian "invaders," foreigners who defiled and split asunder "Akhand Hindustan," the one India of Hindus. In th…
Princely states and the making of modern India
This article examines discussions that took place regarding princely states at the moment of transition from colonial to postcolonial India. It argues for a rethinking of Nehru's vision for ‘the integration of states’, locating his intellectual position in his broader concerns with the United Nations and a framework of international rights. For Nehru, the relationship between princely states and independent India existed reciprocally with that be…
(Mis)Representing Economy
Research Article| August 01 2001 (Mis)Representing Economy: Western Media Production and the Impoverishment of South Asia Manu Bhagavan; Manu Bhagavan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Faisal Bari Faisal Bari Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2001) 21 (1-2): 99–109. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-21-1-2-99 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon S…
(Mis)Representing Economy
Research Article| August 01 2001 (Mis)Representing Economy: Western Media Production and the Impoverishment of South Asia Manu Bhagavan; Manu Bhagavan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Faisal Bari Faisal Bari Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2001) 21 (1-2): 99–109. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-21-1-2-99 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon S…
Demystifying the 'Ideal Progressive
Current scholarship is replete with the praises of princely Baroda, the 'ideal and progressive' state which emerged and prospered under the enlightened rule of Maharaja Sayaji Rao Gaekwad III in the early twentieth century. For example, V. B. Kulkarni notes in his Princely India and Lapse of British Paramountcy that 'It is . . . enough to end this heart-warming story of wise princely governments by recalling the achievements of Sayajirao of Barod…
The Rebel Academy
In recent analyses of nationalism in colonial South Asia, Partha Chatterjee and Tanika Sarkar, among others, have argued that as a result of colonial domination in the "public sphere"-the realm of the state and civil society-Indian male nationalists deployed the "private sphere"-the realm of the home-as the discursive site of anticolonial nationalist imaginaries. The internal space of the home was "the one sphere where improvement could be made t…
Princely States and the Hindu Imaginary
In the early twentieth century, Hindutva, or Hindu nationalism, was a philosophy premised on exclusivist notions of "nation-ness" and "nation-state-ness." India, proponents claimed, had since the earliest times been the pitrabhumi and the punyabhumi of Hindus—their fatherland and holy land. This ideal realm was corrupted by Muslim and Christian "invaders," foreigners who defiled and split asunder "Akhand Hindustan," the one India of Hindus. In th…
Indian Secularism (review)
Reviewed by: Indian Secularism Manu Bhagavan Indian Secularism. By Shabnum Tejani. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. Contemporary world events, from the rise of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, to the dominance of the religious right in U.S. politics, from the pogrom against Muslims in the western Indian state of Gujarat in 2002 to the attacks on Shias in Pakistan, all seem to point out the need for a deep rooted intellectual re-engagement wi…
Princely states and the making of modern India
This article examines discussions that took place regarding princely states at the moment of transition from colonial to postcolonial India. It argues for a rethinking of Nehru's vision for ‘the integration of states’, locating his intellectual position in his broader concerns with the United Nations and a framework of international rights. For Nehru, the relationship between princely states and independent India existed reciprocally with that be…
A New Hope
This paper explores India's role in the development and design of the United Nations (UN), refracted through the Commission that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Through an analysis of sovereignty, citizenship, nationality and human rights from the 1940s to 1956, the paper discusses what India hoped the UN to be, and more generally what they intended for the new world order and for themselves. The paper challenges existing inter…
Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond
Cultures of Servitude
Cultures of Servitude: Modernity, Domesticity, and Class in India, by Raka Ray and Seemin Qayum, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2009, x + 272 pp., $25.00, ISBN: 9780804760720 This is a bo
War and Peace
Ramnarayan S. Rawat. Reconsidering Untouchability
For all of the innovation that Subaltern Studies, with its mission to write history from below, has brought to the study of the South Asian past, relatively few works have as yet centered on the history of Dalits, those “broken to pieces” by the cruelties of the so-called caste system. This book, an important corrective, helps us “reconsider untouchability,” as the title indicates, not only by bringing to light little-known stories of Dalit life …
Aishwary Kumar. Radical Equality
In a recent essay (“Rights vs. Duties,” Boston Review 41, no. 3 [2016]: 42–47), Samuel Moyn calls attention to the urgent need for a renewed focus on the idea of “duties” in history, juxtaposing a lacuna on that topic with what he sees as an overemphasis on the study of “human rights” over the last several decades. Rights and duties go hand in hand, inasmuch as every right suggests correlative obligations, yet there has been no corresponding publ…
Reflections on Indian Internationalism and a Postnational Global Order
Bhagavan's article examines Mahatma Gandhi's ideas on nationalism, internationalism, and cosmopolitanism in the interwar period of the twentieth century. It argues that Gandhi was ultimately a progressive internationalist who sought to rally the world around the concept of a postnational global order
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