Nodes of Translation: Intellectual History between Modern India and Germany

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2024

Nodes of Translation

Intellectual History between Modern India and Germany

Edited by: Martin Christof-Füchsle and Razak Khan

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110787184

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The volume examines translation of key German texts into the modern Indian languages as well as translation from the vernacular languages of South Asia into German. Our key concerns are shifting historical contexts, concepts, and translation practices. Bringing an intellectual history dimension to translation studies, we explore the history of translation, translators, and sites of translation.

The organization of the volume follows some key questions. Which texts were being translated? At what point or period in time did this happen? What were the motivations behind these translations? Topics covered range from thematic nodes or clusters, e.g., translations of Economics texts and ideas into Urdu, or the translation of Marx and Engels into Marathi, to personal endeavours, such as the first Hindi translation of Goethe’s Faust done by Bholanath Sharma in 1939. Missionary as well as Marxist activist translation work from Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu is included too. On the other hand, German translations of Tagore and Gandhi setting in shortly after 1912 are also examined. Also discussed are political strategies of publication of translations from modern Indian languages guiding the output of publishing houses in the GDR after 1949.

Further included are the translator’s perspective and the contemporary translation and literary culture. What happens through the process of linguistic translation in the realm of cultural translation? What can a historical study of translation tell us about the history of Indo-German intellectual entanglements in the long twentieth century? The volume brings together multifaceted interdisciplinary research work from South Asian and German studies to answer some of these questions.

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Martin Christof-Füchsle and Razak Khan, Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Martin Christof-Füchsle and Razak Khan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Locating the First Hindi Translation of Goethe’s Faust (Part One) Fāusṭ (Prathama Bhāga) by Bholanath Sharma Anandita Sharma Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Translating Economics Across the German-South Asian Divide: Muhammad Iqbal, Zakir Husain and Intermediating Ideas Across Languages, Paradigms, and Disciplines Faisal Chaudhry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Hermann Gundert: Missions, Malabar, and the Making of Modern Malayalam Catalina Ioana Pavel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Germans, Casteless Tamils, and Brahminical Sciolism in Early Colonial South India Gajendran Ayyathurai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
The Vernacular Führer: Hitler and the Nazi Movement in Tamil Biographies of the 1930s Torsten Tschacher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Translation and Anticolonial Revivalism: S. R. Rajwade’s Appropriation of F. W. Nietzsche Mangesh Kulkarni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Translating Marx and Engels: Adhikari, Dange and the Indian Revolution Juned Shaikh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Pu. La. Deshpande’s तीन पैशाचा तमाशा (Tīn Paiśācā Tamāśā): Brecht in Marathi Sai Bhatawadekar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
The Birth of the Ascetic Leader. Die Botschaft des Mahatma Gandhi in Troubled Weimar Germany Julia Hauser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Tagore in Germany, Austria and Switzerland: Translation, Archives and Histories Martin Kämpchen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Expanding Domains: Interactions between Telugu and German Worlds Lisa Mitchell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
International GDR Literature, Censorship and the Publication of Translations from Modern Indian Languages in the GDR Martin Christof-Füchsle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Reciprocal Translation: From Legibility to Mutual Intelligibility Parnal Chirmuley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Literary studies scholars, historians, scholars in the fields of gender studies, students of South Asian and German Studies
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 350
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 3
- Coloured Illustrations: 4
Keywords: Indian literature; german literature; entangled history; translation studies; global history; knowledge exchange

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Published: January 29, 2024
ISBN: 9783110787184

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Published: January 29, 2024
ISBN: 9783110787139