FMI member Yorim Spoelder wins the EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize
News vom 23.10.2024
Yorim Spoelder’s Visions of Greater India (CUP, 2023) wins the EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize for best academic monograph on Southeast Asia. According to the jury report, the book “deserves the Book Prize for the Humanities for its exceptional blend of rigorous historical scholarship, cogent analysis, and crisp, engaging narrative. Spoelder’s patient, detailed exposition offers a subtle yet powerful genealogical critique of the idea of Greater India, in particular, and the anticolonial-nationalist projects in India, more broadly. A timely and compelling intervention in the ongoing debates on identity politics and Indian nationalism, it examines the enduring transnational manifestations and transimperial roots and trajectories of the discourses on Greater India, particularly in relation to Southeast Asia. It covers a very wide range of archival and secondary sources in multiple languages and sets a high bar to aspire for scholars of intellectual history and history of ideas, as well as other fields that concern knowledge production and consumption."