INDIA, THE BHAGAVAD GITA AND THE WORLD

This essay considers the relationship between the Bhagavad Gita as a transnational text and its changing role in Indian political thought. Indian liberals used it to mark out the boundaries between the public sphere they desired and a reformed Hinduism. Indian intellectuals also used the image of Kr...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inModern intellectual history Vol. 7; no. 2; pp. 275 - 295
Main Author BAYLY, C. A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.08.2010
Subjects
American literature
British & Irish literature
English literature
Hinduism
Intellectuals
Isherwood, Christopher (1904-1986)
Liberalism
Philosophy
Politics
India
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

Abstract This essay considers the relationship between the Bhagavad Gita as a transnational text and its changing role in Indian political thought. Indian liberals used it to mark out the boundaries between the public sphere they desired and a reformed Hinduism. Indian intellectuals also used the image of Krishna to construct an all-wise founder figure for the new India. Meanwhile, in the transnational sphere of debate, the Gita came to represent India itself in the works of theosophists, spiritual relativists and a variety of intellectual radicals, who approved of the text's ambivalent view of the relationship between political action and the World Spirit. After the First World War, Indian liberals, notably Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, philosopher and later India's second president, used Krishna's words to urge a new and humane international politics infused with the ideal of “detached action”.
AbstractList This essay considers the relationship between the Bhagavad Gita as a transnational text and its changing role in Indian political thought. Indian liberals used it to mark out the boundaries between the public sphere they desired and a reformed Hinduism. Indian intellectuals also used the image of Krishna to construct an all-wise founder figure for the new India. Meanwhile, in the transnational sphere of debate, the Gita came to represent India itself in the works of theosophists, spiritual relativists and a variety of intellectual radicals, who approved of the text's ambivalent view of the relationship between political action and the World Spirit. After the First World War, Indian liberals, notably Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, philosopher and later India's second president, used Krishna's words to urge a new and humane international politics infused with the ideal of "detached action". [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
This essay considers the relationship between the Bhagavad Gita as a transnational text and its changing role in Indian political thought. Indian liberals used it to mark out the boundaries between the public sphere they desired and a reformed Hinduism. Indian intellectuals also used the image of Krishna to construct an all-wise founder figure for the new India. Meanwhile, in the transnational sphere of debate, the Gita came to represent India itself in the works of theosophists, spiritual relativists and a variety of intellectual radicals, who approved of the text's ambivalent view of the relationship between political action and the World Spirit. After the First World War, Indian liberals, notably Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, philosopher and later India's second president, used Krishna's words to urge a new and humane international politics infused with the ideal of “detached action”.
Author BAYLY, C. A.
Author_xml – sequence: 1
  givenname: C. A.
  surname: BAYLY
  fullname: BAYLY, C. A.
  email: cab1002@cam.ac.uk
  organization: Faculty of History, University of Cambridge E-mail: cab1002@cam.ac.uk
BookMark eNp1UE1PwkAQ3RhMBPQHeGs8eLK6s1_TPa4UaRMCiaIem223NRChuIWD_95WiB6Mc5nJy_vIvAHpbepNScgl0FuggHdPIFAzITjQbhBPSL-DQiYk9H5uwc_IoGlWlDLNqOqT63QWp-YmWCTj4D4xE_Ni4mCSLkxgZvE3-jp_nMbn5LSy7015cdxD8vwwXoyScDqfpCMzDQsOahcqRq2rqoLZqEBExbmUVQRK5zqSwuVWOKmclsrmSEE5znWhGGLkGALkFR-Sq4Pv1tcf-7LZZat67zdtZCYR27eEVC0JDqTC103jyyrb-uXa-s8MaNa1kf1po9Xwo8auc790b-Wv8_-qLx3kW-I
CitedBy_id crossref_primary_10_5406_historypresent_2_1_0024
crossref_primary_10_1080_19472498_2012_693711
crossref_primary_10_1017_S1479244313000085
crossref_primary_10_1177_1555412019858890
crossref_primary_10_1177_1474885116666032
crossref_primary_10_1080_17496977_2024_2365023
crossref_primary_10_1108_SBR_09_2017_0071
crossref_primary_10_1017_S0003055413000634
Cites_doi 10.1017/CBO9780511582967
10.1093/past/179.1.159
10.1353/nie.2004.0015
10.1017/CBO9780511558337
ContentType Journal Article
Copyright Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010
Copyright_xml – notice: Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010
DBID AAYXX
CITATION
3V.
7XB
8FK
8G5
AABKS
ABSDQ
ABUWG
AFKRA
AIMQZ
AZQEC
BENPR
CCPQU
DWQXO
GNUQQ
GUQSH
LIQON
M2O
MBDVC
PQEST
PQHSC
PQQKQ
PQUKI
PRINS
Q9U
DOI 10.1017/S1479244310000077
DatabaseName CrossRef
ProQuest Central (Corporate)
ProQuest Central (purchase pre-March 2016)
ProQuest Central (Alumni) (purchase pre-March 2016)
Research Library (Alumni Edition)
Philosophy Collection
Philosophy Database
ProQuest Central (Alumni)
ProQuest Central
ProQuest One Literature
ProQuest Central Essentials
ProQuest Central
ProQuest One Community College
ProQuest Central
ProQuest Central Student
Research Library Prep
ProQuest One Literature
Research Library
Research Library (Corporate)
ProQuest One Academic Eastern Edition (DO NOT USE)
History Study Center
ProQuest One Academic
ProQuest One Academic UKI Edition
ProQuest Central China
ProQuest Central Basic
DatabaseTitle CrossRef
ProQuest One Literature - U.S. Customers Only
Research Library Prep
ProQuest Central Student
ProQuest Central Basic
ProQuest One Literature
ProQuest Central Essentials
ProQuest One Academic Eastern Edition
ProQuest Central (Alumni Edition)
ProQuest One Community College
Research Library (Alumni Edition)
ProQuest Central China
Philosophy Collection
ProQuest Central
ProQuest One Academic UKI Edition
ProQuest Central Korea
ProQuest Research Library
ProQuest One Academic
ProQuest Central (Alumni)
Philosophy Database
DatabaseTitleList ProQuest One Literature - U.S. Customers Only

CrossRef
Database_xml – sequence: 1
  dbid: BENPR
  name: ProQuest Central
  url: https://www.proquest.com/central
  sourceTypes: Aggregation Database
DeliveryMethod fulltext_linktorsrc
Discipline History & Archaeology
Philosophy
DocumentTitleAlternate INDIA, THE BHAGAVAD GITA AND THE WORLD
C. A. BAYLY
EISSN 1479-2451
EndPage 295
ExternalDocumentID 2070998181
10_1017_S1479244310000077
GeographicLocations India
GeographicLocations_xml – name: India
GroupedDBID -E.
.FH
09C
09D
0E1
0R~
123
29M
3V.
4.4
42P
5VS
6TJ
6~8
74X
74Z
7~V
8G5
8I0
8R4
8R5
AABES
AABKS
AABWE
AACJB
AACJH
AAGFV
AAKTX
AALKF
AAPYI
AARAB
AASVR
AAUKB
ABBXD
ABITZ
ABJNI
ABLJU
ABQWD
ABROB
ABSDQ
ABTCQ
ABTND
ABUWG
ABZCX
ACABY
ACGFS
ACIMK
ACUIJ
ACWXD
ACYZP
ACZBM
ACZBN
ADFEC
ADKIL
ADOVH
ADTCA
ADVJH
AEBAK
AEHGV
AEYYC
AFFNX
AFFUJ
AFKQG
AFKRA
AFKRZ
AFLVW
AFUTZ
AGABE
AGHGI
AGJUD
AHQXX
AHRGI
AIGNW
AIHIV
AIMQZ
AISIE
AJ7
AJPFC
AJQAS
ALMA_UNASSIGNED_HOLDINGS
ALVPG
ANFVQ
AOWSX
ARABE
ATUCA
AUXHV
AVDNQ
AWRMI
AZQEC
BBLKV
BCU
BENPR
BGHMG
BMAJL
BPHCQ
C0O
CAG
CCPQU
CCQAD
CFAFE
CGMFO
CHEAL
CJCSC
COF
CS3
DC4
DOHLZ
DU5
DWQXO
D~A
EBS
ED0
EJD
GNUQQ
GUQSH
HG-
HOVLH
HSS
HST
HZ~
I.5
IH6
IOEEP
IS6
I~P
J36
J38
J3B
JHPGK
JOSPZ
JPPIE
JQKCU
JRMXA
L98
LIQON
LW7
M-V
M2O
NIKVX
O9-
OYBOY
P2P
PQHSC
PQQKQ
PROAC
Q2X
RCA
ROL
RR0
S6-
S6U
T9M
TN5
UT1
WFFJZ
WQ3
WXS
WYP
ZYDXJ
~45
~A4
AAYXX
CITATION
7XB
8FK
MBDVC
PQEST
PQUKI
PRINS
Q9U
ID FETCH-LOGICAL-c316t-620adffc2a8c77763355f8169b9854dba4d56d956ab7016d339c62778d2711bf3
IEDL.DBID BENPR
ISSN 1479-2443
IngestDate Thu Oct 10 20:02:09 EDT 2024
Fri Aug 23 02:35:15 EDT 2024
Tue Oct 22 03:33:35 EDT 2024
IsPeerReviewed true
IsScholarly true
Issue 2
Language English
LinkModel DirectLink
MergedId FETCHMERGED-LOGICAL-c316t-620adffc2a8c77763355f8169b9854dba4d56d956ab7016d339c62778d2711bf3
PQID 577077456
PQPubID 29068
PageCount 21
ParticipantIDs proquest_journals_577077456
crossref_primary_10_1017_S1479244310000077
cambridge_journals_10_1017_S1479244310000077
PublicationCentury 2000
PublicationDate 20100800
2010-08-00
20100801
PublicationDateYYYYMMDD 2010-08-01
PublicationDate_xml – month: 08
  year: 2010
  text: 20100800
PublicationDecade 2010
PublicationPlace Cambridge, UK
PublicationPlace_xml – name: Cambridge, UK
– name: Cambridge
PublicationTitle Modern intellectual history
PublicationYear 2010
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Publisher_xml – name: Cambridge University Press
References Farquhar (S1479244310000077_ref24) 1907
Gopal (S1479244310000077_ref25) 1992
Young (S1479244310000077_ref7) 1981
Paul (S1479244310000077_ref2) 2007
S1479244310000077_ref3
S1479244310000077_ref6
Radhakrishnan (S1479244310000077_ref29) 1947
S1479244310000077_ref17
Kapila (S1479244310000077_ref12) 2007; 4
S1479244310000077_ref19
Johnson (S1479244310000077_ref10) 1994
Mukerji (S1479244310000077_ref27) 1929
Banerjea (S1479244310000077_ref5) 1925
Copley (S1479244310000077_ref9) 2006
Majumdar (S1479244310000077_ref1) 1934
Capper (S1479244310000077_ref14) 1999
Jordens (S1479244310000077_ref21) 1978
Aurobindo (S1479244310000077_ref13) 1949
Majumdar (S1479244310000077_ref11) 1969
Bellenoit (S1479244310000077_ref8) 2007
Halbfass (S1479244310000077_ref30) 1988
Radhakrishnan (S1479244310000077_ref28) 1948
Reid (S1479244310000077_ref15) 1965
Bayly (S1479244310000077_ref4) 2010
Pal (S1479244310000077_ref22) 1909
Doyle (S1479244310000077_ref18) 1926
Turner (S1479244310000077_ref20) 1992
Dalmia (S1479244310000077_ref16) 1996
Biagini (S1479244310000077_ref23) 2008
Wadia (S1479244310000077_ref26) 1935; 67
References_xml – ident: S1479244310000077_ref6
  doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511582967
– volume-title: Liberalism Old and New
  year: 2007
  ident: S1479244310000077_ref2
  contributor:
    fullname: Paul
– start-page: 74
  volume-title: Historians on Race, Nation and Empire 1750 to the Present
  year: 2010
  ident: S1479244310000077_ref4
  contributor:
    fullname: Bayly
– start-page: 25
  volume-title: Radhakrisnhnan: A Biography
  year: 1992
  ident: S1479244310000077_ref25
  contributor:
    fullname: Gopal
– start-page: xlv
  volume-title: The Song of God: Translation of the Bhagavad-Gita
  year: 1929
  ident: S1479244310000077_ref27
  contributor:
    fullname: Mukerji
– start-page: 364
  volume-title: Gita and Gospel
  year: 1907
  ident: S1479244310000077_ref24
  contributor:
    fullname: Farquhar
– start-page: 15
  volume-title: Essays on the Gita (First Series)
  year: 1949
  ident: S1479244310000077_ref13
  contributor:
    fullname: Aurobindo
– volume: 4
  start-page: 109
  volume-title: Modern Intellectual History
  year: 2007
  ident: S1479244310000077_ref12
  contributor:
    fullname: Kapila
– volume-title: History of Political Thought: From Rammohun to Dayananda (1821–84)
  year: 1934
  ident: S1479244310000077_ref1
  contributor:
    fullname: Majumdar
– ident: S1479244310000077_ref17
  doi: 10.1093/past/179.1.159
– volume-title: Resistant Hinduism: Sanskrit Sources on Anti-Christian Polemics in Early Nineteenth-Century India
  year: 1981
  ident: S1479244310000077_ref7
  contributor:
    fullname: Young
– start-page: 18
  volume-title: Indian Influences in American Literature and Thought
  year: 1965
  ident: S1479244310000077_ref15
  contributor:
    fullname: Reid
– volume-title: The History of Spiritualism
  year: 1926
  ident: S1479244310000077_ref18
  contributor:
    fullname: Doyle
– volume-title: Transient and Permanent: The Transcendentalist Movement and Its Context
  year: 1999
  ident: S1479244310000077_ref14
  contributor:
    fullname: Capper
– volume-title: Missionary Education and Empire in Late Colonial India 1860–1920
  year: 2007
  ident: S1479244310000077_ref8
  contributor:
    fullname: Bellenoit
– start-page: 273
  volume-title: Dayananda Sarasvati; His Life and Ideas
  year: 1978
  ident: S1479244310000077_ref21
  contributor:
    fullname: Jordens
– volume-title: Giuseppe Mazzini and the Globalisation of Democratic Nationalism
  year: 2008
  ident: S1479244310000077_ref23
  contributor:
    fullname: Biagini
– start-page: 10
  volume-title: Religion and Society
  year: 1947
  ident: S1479244310000077_ref29
  contributor:
    fullname: Radhakrishnan
– start-page: 39
  volume-title: Krsna in History and Legend
  year: 1969
  ident: S1479244310000077_ref11
  contributor:
    fullname: Majumdar
– volume-title: Gay Writers in Search of the Divine: Hinduism and Homosexuality in the Lives and Writings of Edward Carpenter, E. M. Forster and Christopher Isherwood
  year: 2006
  ident: S1479244310000077_ref9
  contributor:
    fullname: Copley
– volume-title: The Bhagavad Gita
  year: 1994
  ident: S1479244310000077_ref10
  contributor:
    fullname: Johnson
– volume: 67
  start-page: 166
  year: 1935
  ident: S1479244310000077_ref26
  article-title: The Place of the Gita in the India of Today
  publication-title: Hindustan Review
  contributor:
    fullname: Wadia
– volume-title: A Nation in Making
  year: 1925
  ident: S1479244310000077_ref5
  contributor:
    fullname: Banerjea
– ident: S1479244310000077_ref19
  doi: 10.1353/nie.2004.0015
– start-page: vi
  volume-title: Anthropological Religion
  year: 1992
  ident: S1479244310000077_ref20
  contributor:
    fullname: Turner
– start-page: 394
  volume-title: The Nationalisation of Hindu Traditions: Bhartendu Harischandra and Nineteenth-Century Banaras
  year: 1996
  ident: S1479244310000077_ref16
  contributor:
    fullname: Dalmia
– volume-title: The Bhagavadgita with an Introductory Essay, Sanskrit Text, English Translation and Notes
  year: 1948
  ident: S1479244310000077_ref28
  contributor:
    fullname: Radhakrishnan
– ident: S1479244310000077_ref3
  doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511558337
– start-page: 7
  volume-title: Sri-Krsna
  year: 1909
  ident: S1479244310000077_ref22
  contributor:
    fullname: Pal
– start-page: 253
  volume-title: India and Europe: An Essay in Understanding
  year: 1988
  ident: S1479244310000077_ref30
  contributor:
    fullname: Halbfass
RelatedPersons Isherwood, Christopher (1904-1986)
RelatedPersons_xml – fullname: Isherwood, Christopher (1904-1986)
SSID ssj0029206
Score 1.9166492
Snippet This essay considers the relationship between the Bhagavad Gita as a transnational text and its changing role in Indian political thought. Indian liberals used...
SourceID proquest
crossref
cambridge
SourceType Aggregation Database
Publisher
StartPage 275
SubjectTerms American literature
British & Irish literature
English literature
Hinduism
Intellectuals
Isherwood, Christopher (1904-1986)
Liberalism
Philosophy
Politics
Title INDIA, THE BHAGAVAD GITA AND THE WORLD
URI https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1479244310000077/type/journal_article
https://www.proquest.com/docview/577077456
Volume 7
hasFullText 1
inHoldings 1
isFullTextHit
isPrint
link http://utb.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/link/0/eLvHCXMwfV3NT8IwFG8ULlyMIkZETQ-Gg2HJ1vVjO5nhkGF0EgLKbenHdgQUPPDf2-4DJSZc35YeXtvX36_v9f0AuCOSCMIVtwTDwsKUpJYQej9SjlDGWco4Mm-HX2MazfDznMzL2px1WVZZxcQ8UKulNHfkmrgzW0MVQh9Wn5YRjTLJ1VJB4xjUkSYKdg3U-4N4PNkxLh_ZxfMiZtII2K3SmqZntDEaW37BrYf-21xh_5Daj9H5wfN0Ck5KxAiDYorPwFG6aIJW0d5jC7vQ9I7luT7vtgka40qaYHsOuqM4HAU9OI0GsB8Fw-A9COFwNA1gEIe59eNt8hK2wOxpMH2MrFIXwZKuQzcWRTZXWSYR9yRjOkBozJB5DvWF7xGsBMeKUKWJDxdMIzrlur6kiDFPIeY4InMvQG2xXKSXAGowl-IMsVS6Hnak70vNaPS-1iRReUiiNujtnJKUq3udFJVhLPnnwza4r_yWrIpuGYd-7lSe_R16N81XB792QKNI45tKvGtQ23x9pzcaHWzEbbkGfgBxvq4y
link.rule.ids 315,783,787,21400,27936,27937,33756,43817,74630
linkProvider ProQuest
linkToHtml http://utb.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/link/0/eLvHCXMwfV3NT8IwFG8UDnIxihgRP3YwHAxLWNe128kMB2wKk5Ch3JZ-bEdAwQP_ve0-UGLC9W3p4bV9_f36Xn8PgAeLW8yiguqMIKYjbCU6Y3I_YgphSklCKFRvh8ch9mfoZW7Ni9qcdVFWWcbELFCLJVd35JK4k66EKhZ-Wn3qqmmUSq4WHTSOQVUpVUnuVe31w8l0x7gc2M2fFxGVRkBmmdZUmtHKqGzZBbcc-q-4wv4htR-js4NncAZOC8SoufkUn4OjZFEHjVzeY6u1NaUdS7P-vNs6qE3K1gTbC9AOQi9wO1rk97We7w7dd9fThkHkam7oZdaPt-nIa4DZoB89-3rRF0HnpoE3OoZdKtKUQ2pzQmSAkJghtQ3sMMe2kGAUCQsLSXwoIxLRCdN0OIaE2AISw2CpeQkqi-UiuQKaBHMJSiFJuGkjgzsOl4xG7mtJEoUNOWyCzs4pcbG613FeGUbifz5sgsfSb_EqV8s49HOr9Ozv0Ltpvj749R6c-NF4FI-C8LUFanlKX1Xl3YDK5us7uZVIYcPuivXwA92vsSw
linkToPdf http://utb.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/link/0/eLvHCXMwfV1LT8JAEJ4oJoaLUcSIzx4MB0Mj3W5325OpFiiKlRBQbs0-2iOg4oF_724fKDHhOrtpk9nZ2W92Zr8BuHGEwx0mmckp5iYmTmJyrvYjYQiljCaUIf12-CUi4QQ_TZ1pQSn0VZRVlj4xc9RyLvQduQrcaVtBFYfcpUVVxDDo3i8-TN1ASidai24au7BHMbHbFdh76ETD0Tr68lA7f2pEdUoB22WKU_NHa6GWZZfd6jd_iRY2D6xNf50dQt1DOCjQo-Hny30EO8msBvWc6mNlNA3NI8uyXr2rGlSHZZuC1TE0-1HQ91vGOOwYD6Hf89_8wOj1x77hR0EmfX8dDYI6TLqd8WNoFj0STGFbZGkS1GYyTQVirqBUOQuFH1LXIh73XAdLzrB0iFRBEONUoTtp254giFJXImpZPLVPoDKbz5JTMBSwS3CKaCJsF1vC84SKbtQeVwGjdJFADWitlRIXlv4V51ViNP6nwwbclnqLFzlzxrbJ56Vmfz-9XvKzraPXsK9MIR70o-dzqObZfV2gdwGV5ed3cqlAw5JfFebwA44VtVo
openUrl ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info%3Aofi%2Fenc%3AUTF-8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fsummon.serialssolutions.com&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=INDIA%2C+THE+BHAGAVAD+GITA+AND+THE+WORLD&rft.jtitle=Modern+intellectual+history&rft.au=BAYLY%2C+C.+A.&rft.date=2010-08-01&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.issn=1479-2443&rft.eissn=1479-2451&rft.volume=7&rft.issue=2&rft.spage=275&rft.epage=295&rft_id=info:doi/10.1017%2FS1479244310000077&rft.externalDocID=10_1017_S1479244310000077
thumbnail_l http://covers-cdn.summon.serialssolutions.com/index.aspx?isbn=/lc.gif&issn=1479-2443&client=summon
thumbnail_m http://covers-cdn.summon.serialssolutions.com/index.aspx?isbn=/mc.gif&issn=1479-2443&client=summon
thumbnail_s http://covers-cdn.summon.serialssolutions.com/index.aspx?isbn=/sc.gif&issn=1479-2443&client=summon