Gauri Viswanathan
Biographic Data
| ID | 88646 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gauri Viswanathan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gauri |
| FAMILY NAME | Viswanathan |
| SIGNATURE | VISWANATHAN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 286 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle
Value: H. G. Wells’ Tono-Bungay and the “Romance of Modern Commerce”
WIDELY CONSIDERED to be one of H. G. Wells’ greatest novels, Tono-Bungay was published in 1909 at a time that witnessed the rapid growth of urbanization, imperial expansion, and industrialization. The steady erosion of the landed estates that dotted the countryside exposed the transition to a new set of values no longer dominated by the old, conservative Anglican moralities, as the former aristocratic estates witnessed their makeover into gilded …
In Search of Madame Blavatsky
Widely considered to be one of the most influential occultists of modern times, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-91) was equally a cultural critic and theorist of religion. This essay examines Blavatsky's reading practices and the interpretive protocols she followed in challenging the hegemony of certain knowledge structures, whose origin she located in religious orthodoxy. A key point of her critique was that dominant religions consigned competin…
Coping with (Civil) Death: The Christian Convert’s Rights of Passage in Colonial India
Handbook of the Theosophical Current, edted by Olav Hammer and Mikael Rothstein
Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India
A classic work in postcolonial studies, Masks of Conquest describes the introduction of English studies in India under British rule and illuminates the discipline's transcontinental movements and derivations, showing that the origins of English studies are as diverse and diffuse as its future shape will be. In her new preface, Gauri Viswanathan argues forcefully that the curricular study of English can no longer be understood innocently of or ina…
Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India
The Beginnings of English Literary Study2. Praeparatio Evangelica3. Power, One Mind4. Rewriting English5. Lessons of History6. The Failure of English7. Conclusion: Empire and the Western CanonNotesSelect BibliographyIndex
A Voice Sorely Missed
A Voice Sorely Missed." Journal of Palestine Studies, 36(3), pp. 94–95 Additional informationNotes on contributorsGauri ViswanathanGauri Viswanathan is Class of 1933 Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. She is the author of Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British India (Columbia University Press, 1989; Oxford University Press, 1998) and Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief (Princeton University Press, 1998) and…
The State of the World
The State of the World Gauri Viswanathan (bio) Christopher Bayly has performed a seemingly impossible feat in writing a book of astonishing ambition and range, the erudite scope of which most readers might only expect from a multi- author format. To his credit Bayly never succumbs to a textbook approach nor resorts to the compulsions of obligatory coverage—the bane of most writers aiming for such a broad sweep of historical material. This is a bo…
Ireland, India, and the Poetics of Internationalism
Focusing on decolonization and the home rule movement in India and Ireland, this article examines the career of the poet and theosophist James Cousins, who left a flourishing career in Dublin and settled in India in 1915. The substantial body of work published by Cousins in India represents his attempt to work through issues of realism and idealism in art that, in his view, remained unresolved in the Irish cultural renaissance. In his literary cr…
Edward W. Said: Teacher and Friend
Literacy and Conversion in the Discourse of Hindu Nationalism
La remise du Prix Nobel d'economie a Amartya Sen en 1998 fut saluee en Inde par tous les observateurs, hormis par le parti nationaliste Hindou Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) qui y a vu l'expression d'une propagande en faveur de valeurs occidentales. A. Sen a ete couronne pour avoir mis l'accent notamment sur l'alphabetisation comme facteur de developpement. A travers la contestation de la legitimite de son Prix, le VHP entend critiquer l'education d…
The Ordinary Business of Occultism
Milton, Imperialism, and Education
Research Article| September 01 1998 Milton, Imperialism, and Education Gauri Viswanathan Gauri Viswanathan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Modern Language Quarterly (1998) 59 (3): 345–361. https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-59-3-345 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Gauri Viswanathan; Milton, Imperialism, and Education. Modern Language Quarterly 1 September 1998; 59 (3): 345–361. doi…
CHAPTER Four Silencing Heresy
CHAPTER Five Ethnographic Plots
Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief
Outside the Fold is a radical reexamination of religious conversion. Gauri Viswanathan skillfully argues that conversion is an interpretive act that belongs in the realm of cultural criticism. To that end, this work examines key moments in colonial and postcolonial history to show how conversion questions the limitations of secular ideologies, particularly the discourse of rights central to both the British empire and the British nation-state. Im…
Blasphemy and Heresy: The Modernist Challenge. A Review Article
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Chapter 7. Coping with (Civil) Death: The Christian Convert’s Rights of Passage in Colonial India
Coping with (Civil) Death: The Christian Convert’s Rights of Passage in Colonial India
Currying Favor: The Politics of British Educational and Cultural Policy in India, 1813-1854
Antonio Gramsci illuminates relations of culture and power through useful insight that cultural domination works by consent and often precedes conquest by force. Power, operating concurrently at two clearly distinguishable levels, produces a situation where the supremacy of a social group manifests itself in two ways, as 'domination' and as 'intellectual and moral leadership.'... It seems clear ... that there can, and indeed must be hegemonic act…
The Beginnings of English Literary Study in British India
This paper is part of a larger inquiry into the construction of English literary education as a cultural ideal in British India. British parliamentary documents have provided compelling evidence for the central thesis of the investigation: that humanistic functions traditionally associated with the study of literature — for example, the shaping of character or the development of the esthetic sense or the disciplines of ethical thinking — are also…
Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief
Outside the Fold is a radical reexamination of religious conversion. Gauri Viswanathan skillfully argues that conversion is an interpretive act that belongs in the realm of cultural criticism. To that end, this work examines key moments in colonial and postcolonial history to show how conversion questions the limitations of secular ideologies, particularly the discourse of rights central to both the British empire and the British nation-state. Im…
Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India
The Beginnings of English Literary Study2. Praeparatio Evangelica3. Power, One Mind4. Rewriting English5. Lessons of History6. The Failure of English7. Conclusion: Empire and the Western CanonNotesSelect BibliographyIndex
The Ordinary Business of Occultism
The Beginnings of English Literary Study in British India
This paper is part of a larger inquiry into the construction of English literary education as a cultural ideal in British India. British parliamentary documents have provided compelling evidence for the central thesis of the investigation: that humanistic functions traditionally associated with the study of literature — for example, the shaping of character or the development of the esthetic sense or the disciplines of ethical thinking — are also…
Ireland, India, and the Poetics of Internationalism
Focusing on decolonization and the home rule movement in India and Ireland, this article examines the career of the poet and theosophist James Cousins, who left a flourishing career in Dublin and settled in India in 1915. The substantial body of work published by Cousins in India represents his attempt to work through issues of realism and idealism in art that, in his view, remained unresolved in the Irish cultural renaissance. In his literary cr…
Currying Favor: The Politics of British Educational and Cultural Policy in India, 1813-1854
Antonio Gramsci illuminates relations of culture and power through useful insight that cultural domination works by consent and often precedes conquest by force. Power, operating concurrently at two clearly distinguishable levels, produces a situation where the supremacy of a social group manifests itself in two ways, as 'domination' and as 'intellectual and moral leadership.'... It seems clear ... that there can, and indeed must be hegemonic act…
Value: H. G. Wells’ Tono-Bungay and the “Romance of Modern Commerce”
WIDELY CONSIDERED to be one of H. G. Wells’ greatest novels, Tono-Bungay was published in 1909 at a time that witnessed the rapid growth of urbanization, imperial expansion, and industrialization. The steady erosion of the landed estates that dotted the countryside exposed the transition to a new set of values no longer dominated by the old, conservative Anglican moralities, as the former aristocratic estates witnessed their makeover into gilded …
In Search of Madame Blavatsky
Widely considered to be one of the most influential occultists of modern times, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-91) was equally a cultural critic and theorist of religion. This essay examines Blavatsky's reading practices and the interpretive protocols she followed in challenging the hegemony of certain knowledge structures, whose origin she located in religious orthodoxy. A key point of her critique was that dominant religions consigned competin…
Blasphemy and Heresy: The Modernist Challenge. A Review Article
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Beginnings of English Literary Study in British India
This paper is part of a larger inquiry into the construction of English literary education as a cultural ideal in British India. British parliamentary documents have provided compelling evidence for the central thesis of the investigation: that humanistic functions traditionally associated with the study of literature — for example, the shaping of character or the development of the esthetic sense or the disciplines of ethical thinking — are also…
Currying Favor: The Politics of British Educational and Cultural Policy in India, 1813-1854
Antonio Gramsci illuminates relations of culture and power through useful insight that cultural domination works by consent and often precedes conquest by force. Power, operating concurrently at two clearly distinguishable levels, produces a situation where the supremacy of a social group manifests itself in two ways, as 'domination' and as 'intellectual and moral leadership.'... It seems clear ... that there can, and indeed must be hegemonic act…
Chapter 7. Coping with (Civil) Death: The Christian Convert’s Rights of Passage in Colonial India
Coping with (Civil) Death: The Christian Convert’s Rights of Passage in Colonial India
Blasphemy and Heresy: The Modernist Challenge. A Review Article
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Milton, Imperialism, and Education
Research Article| September 01 1998 Milton, Imperialism, and Education Gauri Viswanathan Gauri Viswanathan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Modern Language Quarterly (1998) 59 (3): 345–361. https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-59-3-345 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Gauri Viswanathan; Milton, Imperialism, and Education. Modern Language Quarterly 1 September 1998; 59 (3): 345–361. doi…
CHAPTER Four Silencing Heresy
CHAPTER Five Ethnographic Plots
Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief
Outside the Fold is a radical reexamination of religious conversion. Gauri Viswanathan skillfully argues that conversion is an interpretive act that belongs in the realm of cultural criticism. To that end, this work examines key moments in colonial and postcolonial history to show how conversion questions the limitations of secular ideologies, particularly the discourse of rights central to both the British empire and the British nation-state. Im…
Literacy and Conversion in the Discourse of Hindu Nationalism
La remise du Prix Nobel d'economie a Amartya Sen en 1998 fut saluee en Inde par tous les observateurs, hormis par le parti nationaliste Hindou Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) qui y a vu l'expression d'une propagande en faveur de valeurs occidentales. A. Sen a ete couronne pour avoir mis l'accent notamment sur l'alphabetisation comme facteur de developpement. A travers la contestation de la legitimite de son Prix, le VHP entend critiquer l'education d…
The Ordinary Business of Occultism
Edward W. Said: Teacher and Friend
Ireland, India, and the Poetics of Internationalism
Focusing on decolonization and the home rule movement in India and Ireland, this article examines the career of the poet and theosophist James Cousins, who left a flourishing career in Dublin and settled in India in 1915. The substantial body of work published by Cousins in India represents his attempt to work through issues of realism and idealism in art that, in his view, remained unresolved in the Irish cultural renaissance. In his literary cr…
The State of the World
The State of the World Gauri Viswanathan (bio) Christopher Bayly has performed a seemingly impossible feat in writing a book of astonishing ambition and range, the erudite scope of which most readers might only expect from a multi- author format. To his credit Bayly never succumbs to a textbook approach nor resorts to the compulsions of obligatory coverage—the bane of most writers aiming for such a broad sweep of historical material. This is a bo…
A Voice Sorely Missed
A Voice Sorely Missed." Journal of Palestine Studies, 36(3), pp. 94–95 Additional informationNotes on contributorsGauri ViswanathanGauri Viswanathan is Class of 1933 Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. She is the author of Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British India (Columbia University Press, 1989; Oxford University Press, 1998) and Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief (Princeton University Press, 1998) and…
Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India
A classic work in postcolonial studies, Masks of Conquest describes the introduction of English studies in India under British rule and illuminates the discipline's transcontinental movements and derivations, showing that the origins of English studies are as diverse and diffuse as its future shape will be. In her new preface, Gauri Viswanathan argues forcefully that the curricular study of English can no longer be understood innocently of or ina…
Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India
The Beginnings of English Literary Study2. Praeparatio Evangelica3. Power, One Mind4. Rewriting English5. Lessons of History6. The Failure of English7. Conclusion: Empire and the Western CanonNotesSelect BibliographyIndex
Handbook of the Theosophical Current, edted by Olav Hammer and Mikael Rothstein
Coping with (Civil) Death: The Christian Convert’s Rights of Passage in Colonial India
In Search of Madame Blavatsky
Widely considered to be one of the most influential occultists of modern times, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-91) was equally a cultural critic and theorist of religion. This essay examines Blavatsky's reading practices and the interpretive protocols she followed in challenging the hegemony of certain knowledge structures, whose origin she located in religious orthodoxy. A key point of her critique was that dominant religions consigned competin…
Value: H. G. Wells’ Tono-Bungay and the “Romance of Modern Commerce”
WIDELY CONSIDERED to be one of H. G. Wells’ greatest novels, Tono-Bungay was published in 1909 at a time that witnessed the rapid growth of urbanization, imperial expansion, and industrialization. The steady erosion of the landed estates that dotted the countryside exposed the transition to a new set of values no longer dominated by the old, conservative Anglican moralities, as the former aristocratic estates witnessed their makeover into gilded …
Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle
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