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  1. Front Matter
    1. Title Page
    2. Table of Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Part I. The Futurism of Young Asia
    1. 1. A Critique of Social Philosophy
    2. 2. The Doctrine of Superior Races.
    3. 3. The Logic of the Occident.
    4. 4. The Alleged Pessimism of the Orient.
    5. 5. The So-called Opening of China.
    6. 6. The Real Cycles of Cathay.
    7. 7. The Comparative Method.
    8. 8. The Age of Modernism.
    9. 9. The Event of 1905.
    10. 10. The Demand of Young Asia.
    11. Notes
  4. Part II. Asia and Eur-America.
    1. Leavings of the Great War (1914-1918)
      1. 1. The War and Asia.
      2. 2. Revolution vs. Reaction.
      3. 3. Evacuation of Asia.
      4. 4. Bolsheviks and the British Empire.
      5. 5. A Monopoly in World Control.
      6. 6. Achievements of the War.
      7. 7. The Fallacies of Neo-liberalism.
      8. 8. Bulwark of World Peace.
      9. 9. The New Germany and Young Asia.
      10. Notes
    2. Persia and the Persian Gulf (1906-1919).
      1. 1. Reconstruction in the Persian Gulf.
      2. 2. The New Persia in Realpolitik.
      3. Notes
    3. Asia in Americanization.
      1. 1. The Race-Problem of the New World.
      2. 2. America's Ultimatum to Asia.
      3. 3. The Oriental Factor in the Immigrant Population.
      4. 4. The Basis of Discrimination.
      5. 5. Asians vs. Latins and Slavs.
      6. 6. Persecution of Asians in America.
      7. 7. Anti-Chinese "Pogroms" of the United States (1855-1905).
      8. 8. The Crime of Colour.
      9. 9. Americanism in the New Asia.
      10. 10. New Asian States and America.
      11. 11. India in the United States.
      12. Notes
    4. A View of France
      1. 1. Prevalent Notions about France.
      2. 2. The Atmosphere of Paris.
      3. 3. French Discoveries and Inventions.
      4. 4. Knowing France.
      5. 5. The Challenge to Young India.
      6. 6. A Call to Comradeship.
      7. 7. French Economics and India.
      8. 8. India in French Communism.
    5. Confucianism, Buddhism, and Christianity1
      1. 1. Method of Approach.
      2. 2. Christ-lore in History.
      3. 3. Confucianism and Buddhism Analyzed.
      4. 4. The Doctrine of Avatâra. (Deification of Man.)
      5. 5. Rapprochement in Religious Psychology.
      6. 6. The Ethical postulates of China, India, and Christendom.
      7. Notes
    6. The World's Great Classics.
      1. 1. Eur-American Methodology
      2. 2. The New Criticism.
      3. 3. Classicism and Christ-lore.
      4. 4. From the Mediaeval to the Romantic.
      5. 5. Folk-Imagination.
      6. 6. Inductive Generalization.
      7. Notes
    7. View-Points in Aesthetics.
      1. 1. Two Specimens of Art-Appreciation.
      2. 2. The Current Standard of Aesthetic Appraisal.
      3. 3. The Boycott of Western Culture.
      4. 4. Achievements of the Modern Mind.
      5. 5. The Alleged Indian Point of View.
      6. 6. Race-Ideals in Fine Arts.
      7. 7. Aesthetic Revolution.
      8. 8. Historical Art-Criticism.
      9. 9. Philosophical Art-Criticism.
      10. 10. The Themes of Art.
      11. 11. Swarâj in Shilpa.
      12. 12. The Art-In-Itself or Pure Art.
      13. 13. The Alphabet of Beauty.
      14. 14. Structural Composition or Morphology of Art.
      15. 15. The Idiom of Painting.
      16. 16. Form and Volume in Colour.
      17. 17. The Geometry of Sculpture.
      18. 18. The Mechanism of Colour-Construction.
      19. Notes
    8. Old India in the New West.
      1. 1. Naval Architecture.
      2. 2. The So-Called Bell-Lancasterian Pedagogics.
      3. 3. Shakuntalâ and the Romantic Movement.
      4. 4. The Gitâ in Europe and America.
      5. 5. Manu as the Inspirer of Nietzsche.
      6. 6. India in the Universities and Movies.
      7. 7. Sanskritic Culture and the "Comparative" Sciences.
      8. Notes
    9. Oriental Culture in Modern Pedagogics.
      1. 1. Asia in Liberal Culture.
      2. 2. Chinese Poetry.
      3. 3. China's Paintings.
      4. 4. A Modern Superstition.
      5. 5. The Pluralistic Universe.
      6. 6. Hindu Synthesis.
      7. 7. The India of Colonialists and Orientalists.
      8. 8. The Ideas of 1905.
      9. 9. Human Interests of Oriental Achievements.
      10. 10. Expansion of the Mind.
      11. 11. A Call to Cosmopolitanism.
      12. 12. The Message of Equality.
      13. Notes
  5. Part III. Revolutions in China
    1. The Beginnings of the Republic in China.
      1. 1. The Revolutionist Manifesto.
      2. 2. Despotism and Mal-administration.
      3. 3. East and West.
      4. Notes
    2. Political Tendencies in Chinese Culture.
      1. 1. Revolutions in Chinese History.
      2. 2. The Logic of the Fish.
      3. 3. Achievements and Failures of the Manchus.
      4. 4. The Chinese Herodotus on the Law of Revolutions.
      5. Notes
    3. Young China's Experiments in Education and Swarâj.
      1. 1. Swarâj before Education.
      2. 2. China's Educational Endeavours.
      3. 3. Embryology of Democracy.
      4. 4. "Absolute" Revolutions.
      5. Notes
    4. The Democratic Background of Chinese Culture.
      1. 1. Local and Gild Liberties.
      2. 2. Centralizing Agencies.
      3. 3. Chinese Political Philosophy.
      4. Notes
    5. The Fortunes of the Chinese Republic (1912-1919).
      1. 1. Revolutions and Reactions.
      2. 2. North and South in Chinese Politics.
      3. 3. Min Kuo (Republic) Triumphant.
      4. 4. Constitutional Agitation under the Manchus.
      5. 5. The Struggle over the Constitution in Republican China.
    6. The International Fetters of Young China.
      1. 1. Foreign Possessions in China.
      2. 2. China's Sovereignty in Realpolitik.
      3. 3. Bolshevik Renunciations.
      4. 4. The Demands of Young China.
      5. 5. The "Never-Ending Wrongs" of the Chinese People.
        1. I. Sphere of Influence.
        2. II. Extra-territoriality.
        3. III. Treaty-ports.
        4. IV. Financial Vassalage.
        5. V. Turiff Restrictions and Boxer Indemnity.
        6. VI. Industrial Tutelage.
        7. VII. Servitude of the Mind.
      6. 6. The Psychology of the Semi-Slave.
      7. Notes
  6. Part IV. Tendencies in Hindu Culture
    1. Fallacies regarding India.
      1. 1. Injustice to the Orient.
      2. 2. Secular Literature of the Hindus.
      3. 3. Humanity and Hindu Culture.
      4. 4. Greater India.
      5. 5. Epochs of Hindu Culture.
      6. 6. Hindu Institutional Life.
    2. International India.
      1. 1. Intercourse with the Egyptians.
      2. 2. With the Aegeans.
      3. 3. With the Semitic Empires of Mesopotamia.
      4. 4. With the Hebrews.
      5. 5. With the Zoroastrians of Persia.
      6. 6. With the Hellenistic Kingdoms.
      7. 7. With the Roman Empire.
      8. 8. With the Chinese.
      9. 9. With the Saracens.
      10. 10. With Europe during the Later-Middle Ages.
      11. 11. With Europe since the Renaissance.
      12. 12. The only "Dark Age" of India.
      13. Notes
    3. Humanism in Hindu Poetry
      1. 1. The Here and the Now.
      2. 2. Yearning after Fire.
      3. 3. Idealism.
      4. 4. Love and War.
      5. 5. Bhartrihari's Synthesis.
      6. 6. Mother-Cult.
      7. 7. Vishvanâtha, the Critic.
      8. Notes
    4. The Joy of Life in Hindu Social Philosophy.
      1. 1. Occidental Pessimism.
      2. 2. Hindu Militarism.
      3. 3. Buddhism in Hindu Culture.
      4. 4. Western Mysticism.
      5. REFORMAT
      6. 5. Hindu Materialism.
      7. 6. Hindu Achievements in Organization.10
      8. Notes
    5. An English History of India.1
      1. 1. Comparative History.
      2. 2. Smith's Fallacies.
      3. 3. Islam in India.
      4. 4. Hindu Period.
      5. 5. Modern India.
      6. Notes
  7. Part V. Young India (1905-1921)
    1. The Methodology of Young India.
      1. 1. Pluralism in Politics.
      2. 2. Protestants in Science.
      3. 3. Revolt against Orientalists.
      4. 4. Varieties of Intellectual Experience.
      5. 5. The Novel Urges of Life.
      6. 6. A New Creed.
      7. 7. The Doctrine of Satyâgraha.
      8. 8. The Gospel of Shakti-Yoga.
      9. Notes
    2. World-Culture in Young India.
      1. Notes
    3. Currents in the Literature of Young India.
      1. 1. Recent Bengali Thought.
      2. 2. The Songs of Young Bengal.
      3. FORMAT ALL POEMS IN THIS CHAPTER
      4. 3. Dutt and Sen.
      5. 4. Romanticism in Fiction.
      6. 5. Gujarati Prose and Poetry.
      7. 6. Songs of the Marathas.
      8. 7. Marathi Drama.
      9. 8. Hari Narayan Apte.
      10. 9. Bâl Gangâdhar Tilak.
      11. 10. Themes of Literature.
      12. 11. The Wealth of Urdu.
      13. 12. "National" Education.
      14. Notes
    4. Science and Learning in Young India.
      1. 1. Criterion of Intellectual Advance.
      2. 2. Extra-Indian Data.
      3. 3. Three Sciences Demanding Cultivation.
      4. 4. The Ideas of 1905.
      5. Notes
    5. A British History of Revolutionary India (1905-1919).1
      1. Notes
    6. Viewpoints on Contemporary India (1918-1919).1
      1. 1. An Antiquarian on Modern India.
      2. 2. A British Socialist on Young India.
      3. 3. India and the British Empire.
      4. 4. The Proletariat and Nationalism.
      5. 5. An Indian Interpreter.
      6. 6. Map-Making as a Function of Revolutions.
      7. 7. Two Indias.
      8. 8. An Attempt at Theorizing.
      9. 9. Why not a Pluralistic but Free India?
      10. 10. Comparative Politics.
      11. Notes
    7. India's Struggle for Swarâj (1919-1921).
      1. 1. The Roll of Honour.
      2. 2. All-round Boycott.
      3. 3. National Organization.
      4. 4. Ideas of 1905.
      5. 5. Social Service and Solidarity.
      6. 6. Proletarianism and Class-Struggle.
      7. Notes
    8. The Foreign Policy of Young India (1921).
      1. 1. India's Responses to the World.
      2. 2. Greater India.
      3. 3. The World-Test.
      4. 4. Young India in the International Balance.
      5. 5. The Foreign Affiliations of Indian Politics.
      6. 6. The Foreign Services of Young India.
      7. 7. Indian Embassies and Consulates.
  8. Appendix
    1. Notes

The Futurism of Young Asia

and Other Essays on the Relations Between the East and the West

Benoy Kumar Sarkar

1922

Published by Julius Springer (Berlin)

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