Empire, the National and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920: Resistance in Interaction Book

	Abbreviations
1	Anti-imperial Interaction across the Colonial Borderline: Introduction	1
	Cross-national Intertextuality	1
	Networks of Resistance	12
	The Irish Boer War and The United Irishman	25
2	India the Starting Point: Cross-National Self-Translation in 1900s Calcutta	34
	'From all points do the paths converge': A Unique Encounter	34
	A Warlike Spirituality	45
	The Cross-Meshed Calcutta Context	49
	Interdiscursivity: Of Kali and the Gita	57
	'She is in me as she is in you': Nivedita's Kali-Worship	67
3	'But Transmitters'?: The Interdiscursive Alliance of Aurobindo Ghose and Sister Nivedita	79
	Aurobindo Ghose in England: 'the spirit alone that saves'	80
	The Young Margaret Noble: 'the ocean through an empty shell'	88
	A Joint 'Cry for Battle'	94
	'To assail and crush the assailant': Intertextual Links	106
4	'Able to sing their songs': Solomon Plaatje's Many-Tongued Nationalism	125
	A Barolong, a Gentleman: An Exemplary Career	131
	Nationalism and the Transatlantic 'People's Friend'	150
5	'Immeasurable Strangeness' between Empire and Modernism: W. B. Yeats and Rabindranath Tagore, and Leonard Woolf	169
	Towards a Theory of Modernism in the Imperial World	169
	Leonard Woolf: Reluctant Imperialism	184
	The Cultural Nationalist as Modernist	191
	Conclusion: A Narrative Claim upon the Jungle	201
	Bibliography	215
	Index	233