German Nationalism and Indian Political Thought: The Influence of Ancient Indian Philosophy on the German Romantics

This book examines the influence of Indian socio-political thought, ideas, and culture on German Romantic nationalism. It suggests that, contrary to the traditional view that the concepts of nationalism have moved exclusively from the West to the rest of the world, in the crucial case of German nationalism, the essential intellectual underpinnings of the nationalist discourse came to the West, not from the West.

The book demonstrates how the German Romantic fascination with India resulted i...