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Cosmopolitanism and Empire

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Cosmopolis and Beyond: Literary Cosmopolitanism after the Republic of Letters
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Elleke Boehmer considers the cosmopolitan outlooks, experiences and values of Indian travellers to the west in the late 19th century.
In the late 19th c a set of remarkable Indian ‘arrivants’ – scholars, poets, religious seekers, and political activists – began, as novelist Amitav Ghosh describes it, 'travelling in the west'. They included Toru Dutt and Sarojini Naidu, Mohandas Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore. In this paper I examine how their travel to and presence on British shores and involvement with various Britons had a shaping effect on how cosmopolitan life in the imperial capital was conceived, and, therefore, on how intercultural hospitality was expressed – especially at a time, as we remember, of high imperialism, and of outright racism especially in the imperial frontier.

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Cosmopolis and Beyond: Literary Cosmopolitanism after the Republic of Letters
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Elleke Boehmer
Keywords
literature
cosmopolitanism
Colonialism
migration
india
Britain
travellers
Department: Trinity College
Date Added: 05/04/2016
Duration: 00:16:09

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