Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India : Kindred Spirits in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Paperback)

Introduction Joanne Miyang Cho, Eric Kurlander, and Douglas T. McGetchin Part 1: Pre-Colonial Germany and India 1. Fostering Aesthetic Tolerance through Literary Translation: Georg Forster’s ?akuntal? Madhuvanti Karyekar2. India and Hegel’s "Scientific" Method in the Phenomenology of Spirit Nicholas Germana 3. Claims and Disclaimers: Schopenhauer and the Cross-cultural Comparative Enterprise Sai Bhatawadekar Part 2: Imperial Germany and India 4. Rudolf Steiner and the Theosophy of Greed Jared Poley 5. The Redemption of the Scientist: Richard Garbe as a Chronicler of India Joydeep Bagchee and Vishwa P. Adluri 6. German Travelers to India at the Fin-de-siecle and Their Ambivalent Views of the Raj Perry Myers Part 3: Germany and India during Interwar Years 7. Germans in India between Kaiserreich and the End of World War II Joachim Oesterheld 8. Cross-Cultural Transfer and Indophilia in Count Hermann Keyserling Joanne Miyang Cho 9. Asian Anti-Imperialism and Leftist Antagonism in Weimar Germany Douglas T. McGetchin Part 4: Nazi Germany and India 10. Indian Political Activities in Germany, 1914-1945 Benjamin Zachariah 11. The Orientalist Roots of National Socialism? Nazism, Occultism, and South Asian Spirituality, 1919-1945 Eric Kurlander 12. The Melancholy of the Thinking Racist: India and the Ambiguities of Race in the Work of Hans F. K. Gunther Lucia Staiano-Daniels Part 5: Germany and India since 1945 13. West Germany's India policy 1949 to 1972 Amit Das Gupta 14. East meets East: Fritz Bennewitz’s Theatrical Journeys from the GDR to India Joerg Esleben 15. The Passion of Paul Hacker: Indology, Orientalism, and Evangelism Joydeep Bagchee and Vishwa P. Adluri