Imagining Hāfez: Rabindranath Tagore in Iran, 1932

Marashi, Afshin

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“…Japan and other nation-states of Asia, and the Indians who aspired to independent nationhood, needed this new conception of an alternative Asian civilization as the transcendent basis for their nationalisms. The architects of modern Iranian nationalism under Reza Shah, for instance, invited the Indian poet and Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore, for an elaborate state visit in 1932 to celebrate their common Asian civilization (Marashi 2010).…”

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Three Generations of Comparative Sociologies

Arjomand¹

2010

Arch. eur. sociol.

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Surveying three generations of comparative sociologists, separated by abrupt discontinuities, the study reaches the conclusion that the original promise of comparative sociology set in motion a century ago remains largely unfulfilled. It will then be argued that the work of the third generation of comparative sociologists on civilizational analysis and multiple modernities can redeem the promise of comparative sociology by rectifying the neglect of developmental patterns in other civilizations and recovering the fundamental relevance of the periphery. The third generation is thus seeking to undo the erasure of the historical experience of a very sizeable portion of humankind from the foundation of social theory. This argument is illustrated by selective reference to the concept of the nation-state, and comparisons of civilizational processes and developmental patterns that stem from different religions and traditions and generate varieties of nationalism, alternative modernities and patterns of secularization.

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Section: Varieties Of Nationalism and Their Civilizational Backgroundmentioning

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Three Generations of Comparative Sociologies

Arjomand¹

2010

Arch. eur. sociol.

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Caught between Two Nationalisms: The Iran League of Bombay and the political anxieties of an Indian minority

Patel

2020

Mod. Asian Stud.

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In 1922, a group of wealthy Parsis in Bombay founded an organization that they dubbed the Iran League. Originally designed to assist their fellow Zoroastrians in Iran, who had suffered from centuries of oppression, the League quickly expanded its objectives to include the promotion of broader Indo-Iranian cultural and economic relations. It became a major player in the flow of ideas, literature, business, and tourist traffic between the two countries. Parsi fervour for Iran stemmed from the brand of Iranian nationalism promoted by Reza Shah, which celebrated the country's Zoroastrian past. In response, the League's leaders argued that the Parsis of India could play a special role in the ‘regeneration’ of Iran under the shah's supposedly benign rule. By the 1930s, however, Parsis’ embrace of Iranian nationalism became a clear reflection of their deep concerns about Indian nationalist politics: they cast Iran as an idealized alternative to contemporary India, where the Indian National Congress had supposedly taken an ominously ‘anti-Parsi’ turn. The Iran League, therefore, was caught between two nationalisms. Worry about India's future even prompted some Parsis to argue that their community should ‘return’ to their ancestral homeland of Iran. The story of the Iran League thus demonstrates the complex position of minorities vis-à-vis the brands of nationalism in development during the interwar years. The Parsis, a wealthy but microscopic minority, responded to political anxieties at home by romanticizing a foreign country and taking part in a wholly foreign nationalist project.

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Shared infrastructures, informational asymmetries: Persians and Indians in Japan,c.1890–1930

Green¹

2013

Journal of Global History

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Drawing on primary materials in Persian, Urdu, and English, this article compares Persian and Indian travel accounts to assess the similarities and differences of contemporaneous encounters with Japan. By linking Persian and Urdu writings from either side of 1900 to the differential impact of industrial communications (vernacular printing, steam travel) on Persia and India, the article reconstructs the global connections and inter-Asian networks that suddenly rendered Japan an important touchstone for intellectuals in the Middle East no less than South Asia. By presenting a triangulated and comparative model of inter-Asian exchange, the article contributes to building robust material foundations for positioning Asia, and its Muslims in particular, within global intellectual history, and concludes by contrasting the sources of information generation that preceded ideological formation.

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Imagining Hāfez: Rabindranath Tagore in Iran, 1932

Cited by 9 publications

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Three Generations of Comparative Sociologies

Three Generations of Comparative Sociologies

Caught between Two Nationalisms: The Iran League of Bombay and the political anxieties of an Indian minority

Shared infrastructures, informational asymmetries: Persians and Indians in Japan,c.1890–1930

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