Bøker av Kris Manjapra

'One of the most important and timely books I've had the privilege to read' Corinne Fowler, author of Green Unpleasant LandA revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic world To fully understand why the shadow of slavery haunts us today, we must confront the flawed way that it ended. We celebrate abolition - in Haiti after the revolution, in the British Empire in 1833, in the United States during the Civil War. Yet in Black Ghost of Empire, acclaimed historian Kris Manjapra argues that during each of these supposed emancipations, Black people were dispossessed by the moves that were meant to free them. Emancipation, in other words, simply codified the existing racial caste system - rather than obliterating it. Ranging across the Americas, Europe and Africa, Manjapra unearths disturbing truths about the Age of Emancipations, 1780-1880. In Britain, reparations were given to wealthy slaveowners, not the enslaved, a vast debt that was only paid off in 2015, and the crucial role of Black abolitionists and rebellions in bringing an end to slavery has been overlooked. In Jamaica, Black people were liberated only to enter into an apprenticeship period harsher than slavery itself. In the American South, the formerly enslaved were 'freed' into a system of white supremacy and racial terror. Across Africa, emancipation served as an alibi for colonization. None of these emancipations involved atonement by the enslavers and their governments for wrongs committed, or reparative justice for the formerly enslaved-an omission that grassroots Black organizers and activists are rightly seeking to address today. Black Ghost of Empire will rewire readers' understanding of the world in which we live. Paradigm-shifting, lucid and courageous, this book shines a light into the enigma of slavery's supposed death, and its afterlives.

Age of Entanglement erforscht die Muster, die deutsche und indische Intellektuelle vom 19. Jahrhundert bis in die Jahre nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg verbinden. Kris Manjapra zeichnet die sich überschneidenden Ideen und Karrieren von Philologen, Physikern, Dichtern, Wirtschaftswissenschaftlern und anderen nach, die Ideen austauschten, Netzwerke bildeten und die Welten des anderen studierten. Über die gut einstudierte Kolonialismuskritik hinaus rekonstruiert diese Studie die moderne Geistesgeschichte im Sinne der verknoteten intellektuellen Reiserouten scheinbar fremder Menschen. Die Zusammenarbeit in den Wissenschaften, Künsten und Geisteswissenschaften führte zu außergewöhnlichen Begegnungen zwischen deutschen und indischen Köpfen. Meghnad Saha traf Albert Einstein, Stella Kramrisch brachte das Bauhaus nach Kalkutta, und Girindrasekhar Bose begann eine Korrespondenz mit Sigmund Freud. Rabindranath Tagore reiste nach Deutschland, um Gelehrte für eine neue Universität zu rekrutieren, und Himanshu Rai arbeitete mit Franz Osten zusammen, um in Bombay Filmstudios einzurichten. Diese Interaktionen, so Manjapra, zeigten gemeinsame Reaktionen auf die Hegemonie des britischen Imperiums. Deutsche und Inder hofften, in einander die Werkzeuge zu finden, die nötig waren, um eine anglozentrische Weltordnung zu stören. Wie Manjapra zeigt, sind transnationale Begegnungen nicht von Natur aus fortschrittlich. Vom Orientalismus über den Arianismus bis hin zum Szientismus waren die deutsch-indischen Verstrickungen weder notwendigerweise liberal noch konventionell kosmopolitisch, oft ebenso sehr durch Manipulation wie durch echte Kooperation gekennzeichnet. Die Übersetzung dieses Buches wurde mit Mitteln des Ministeriums für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg gefördert und ausgezeichnet.

Age of Entanglement explores the patterns of connection linking German and Indian intellectuals from the nineteenth century to the years after the Second World War. Kris Manjapra traces the intersecting ideas and careers of philologists, physicists, poets, economists, and others who shared ideas, formed networks, and studied one another's worlds. Moving beyond well-rehearsed critiques of colonialism, this study recasts modern intellectual history in terms of the knotted intellectual itineraries of seeming strangers. Collaborations in the sciences, arts, and humanities produced extraordinary meetings of German and Indian minds. Meghnad Saha met Albert Einstein, Stella Kramrisch brought the Bauhaus to Calcutta, and Girindrasekhar Bose began a correspondence with Sigmund Freud. Rabindranath Tagore traveled to Germany to recruit scholars for a new university, and Himanshu Rai worked with Franz Osten to establish movie studios in Bombay. These interactions, Manjapra argues, evinced shared responses to the hegemony of the British empire. Germans and Indians hoped to find in one another the tools needed to disrupt an Anglocentric world order. As Manjapra demonstrates, transnational encounters are not inherently progressive. From Orientalism to Aryanism to scientism, German-Indian entanglements were neither necessarily liberal nor conventionally cosmopolitan, often characterized as much by manipulation as by genuine cooperation.