European Nationalism and British India
European Nationalism and British India
This short chapter sketches the moment of preoccupation with emerging nationalism in India as well as in Europe at the beginning of the nineteenth century, when an incipient discourse of Indian nationalism appears in British writing, albeit in limited and evanescent form. It argues that this discourse draws on the mainstream literary tradition of Western Europe, but also on the indigenous historical, mythological and literary narratives of India, and the writers’ own lived experience of the country, and their apprehension of the particular socio-economic and political forces driving British interactions with and representations of India.
Keywords: European nationalism, Indian nationalism, Literary tradition
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