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| Cosmopolitanisms in East and West: Greece, China and India |
| Harish Trivedi |
| University of Delhi, New Delhi, India |
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Abstract Cosmopolitan and cosmopolitanism are two terms which conceptualize human being’s efforts of going beyond their given geographical, physical and cultural conditions. Historically, the civilizations of ancient Greek, Sanskrit and China have had different cosmopolitan influence on countries and regions in respective time, and their consequence can be reflected from the designation of mountains and rivers and existent architectures. But nowadays the term of cosmopolitanism is held in a bad fashion by professors and critics of modern Hindi literature. An analysis of two cosmopolitan novels in this paper also shows that the very concept of cosmopolitanism, as a mode of existence and thought has both its uses and its limitations in post-colonial India.
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Received: 28 October 2017
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