The ambit of the Greater India Society was wide, and some of its most prominent scholars specialized in Central Asia, Afghanistan, Tibet and China. The scholars of the Greater India fraternity combined a mix of impulses: nationalism, pan-Asianism, Rabindranath Tagore’s influence and others. This happened in 1917, about a decade before the formation of the Greater India Society (and neither was ever formally to be associated with it). The Journal of the Greater India Society ceased publication in 1959. In retrospect, perhaps we need to separate the nationalism and the triumphalism about Indian ‘colonies’ from the scholarship of the Greater India historians.

Source: The Telegraph June 11, 2020 19:41 UTC