German nationalism and Indian political thought: the influence of ancient Indian philosophy on the German Romantics
In: Intersections: colonial and postcolonial histories
1. The Romantic Germanization (Verdeutschung) of the Indian Heritage 2. Britain's Discovery of India: The Colonial Rulers and Their Fact-Finding Team 3. The German Indian Renaissance and its Historical Roots 4. Friedrich Schlegel: Indology as the Key to the National and Religious History of the World 5. Otmar Frank: A Breakthrough to the Alleged Iranian-Indian Roots of the Germans 6. Joseph Goerres: The Orient as the Source of the Urreligion and of the Staende-based German Weltstaat 7. Schopenhauer: The India-Rooted "Wisdom of All Ages" vs. the Bible-Based Monotheism