Kris Manjapra. Age of Entanglement

For some time now, it has been apparent that the emergence of global history implies a demand that historians in longer-established fields go about their business differently. Much of the attention that has been paid to this demand could fairly be called lip service. Recently, however, that has changed. In Age of Entanglement: German and Indian Intellectuals across Empire, Kris Manjapra, an intellectual historian, takes as his subject the interchanges of ideas between German and Indian (mostly Bengali) intellectuals in a broad range of fields in the late nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century. The general scheme that he employs to frame his treatment of the subject leaves something to be desired, but the way that he has identified what the subject is and the approaches he has taken toward the individual fields serve as impressive examples for other intellectual historians who seek to work in a global context.

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