From civilization to globalization
The ‘West’ as a shifting signifier in Indian modernity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7093040 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dipesh Chakrabarty (0000-0003-0637-644X, University of Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 138-152 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9373 • E-ISSN: 1469-8447 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14649373.2012.636877 |
| OpenAlex | W2044612408 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 7 |
This article tracks the shifting cultural meanings that the East/West distinction has produced in the history of nationalism in colonial and post-colonial India. It does so by focusing on the word "civilization" and the role it played in promoting a rich sense of inter-cultural dialogue in the writings of nationalist leaders such as Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, and Jawaharlal Nehru. The article documents how the word figures with much reduced significance in contemporary cultural debates about globalization in India and concludes by asking if the rise of China and India to global prominence holds the potential today to initiate a conversation across cultures similar to the one that accompanied the rise of the West in the age of modern imperial rule. Keywords: nationalismcivilizationglobalizationmodernity Acknowledgement This is an edited text of a lecture delivered as part of the West Heavens Project at the Shanghai Art Museum in December 2010. I remain grateful to the organizers of the project who invited me to present this lecture and to the Shanghai audience whose many questions and comments I found most instructive. Notes See the discussion in Orwin Citation(1992). There is an English version of the essay, see Tagore Citation(1999a). For the Trasncendentalist connection, see Burke (Citation1998 [1958]: 26). The lines occur in a 1923 lecture entitled 'The Way to Unity' and are repeated in a 1934 letter written to Professor Gilbert Murray, published together under the title 'East and West' in The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore (Tagore Citation1999b). Additional informationNotes on contributorsDipesh Chakrabarty Contact address: 1130 East 59th St., Chicago, Il 60637, USA
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| Unique citing works | 16 |
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| Citations per year | 1,14 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2024 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |