Download or read book Passages through India written by Somak Biswas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses the phenomenon of western Indophilia, its ideological and affective composition, and its political implications in late-colonial British India. Argues that Indophile deployments around transnational projects like abolishing indentured labour and global Hinduism, while anti-colonial, were not necessarily emancipatory.