Celebrating Europe: An Asian Journey

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Index A Abbey of Hautvillers, 109 Abu Ghraib, 61 Adorno, Theodor, 38 Advent of Christ, change in Hellenic and Hebraic worlds, 71 Africa, de-imperialization of the state, 13 Akbar, Mughal Emperor, 146 anti-colonial nationalism, 13 anti-globalization riots, 151 anti-Semitism, 33 Antigone, 156 Antipodes, 12 Aragon, Louis, 81 Archipelago Europe, 47 Arendt, Hannah, 25 Arnold, Matthew, 26, 68 Ash, Timothy Garton, 40, 46 Asia-Europe Foundation, 150 Aspects of Antiquity, 63 Athenians, 123 Auerbach, Erich, 68 Auschwitz, 26 Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 32 Averroes, 64 Avicenna, 64 B Badiou, Alain, 44 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 53 struggle with humourless Societ orthodoxy, 54 Balakrishnan, Gopal, 3 Baldwin, Earl, 97 Banska Bysteria, 130 Barthes, Roland, 5, 50 Bearer of the Mace, 17 Bengal, Hooghly district, 8 Bengali art, 4 Benjamin, Walter, 51, 52 Naples, 80 Berlin, Isaiah, contribution to political philosophy, 63 Berlin Wall, 3, 36–49, 45 fall of, 44 Berman, Marshall, 56 Blecher, Moshe, 29, 30 Bolshevik ascendancy, intellectual challenge to Europe, 51 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 111 Bose, Subhas Chandra, 19 Bosnia, 33 bourgeoisie, 3 Bozek, Grazyna, 131 Brecht, Little Organum for the Theatre, 134 168 Index Bretscher, Hanni, 104 Brezhnev doctrine, 42 Britain, colonialims, 1 British High Commissioner (Singapore), 75 Brook, Peter, 36, 37, 134 Bryson, Bill, 96 Bulgaria, 43 Buruma, Ian, 60 Byrom, John, 73 Byzantine Empire, 65 C Calcutta, Hare School, 8 Calcutta Boys’ School, 17, 20 Calcutta University, 115 Cambridge, student life in, 2 Cambridge Union Society, 104 Camus, Albert, 38, 93 human festivities requiring freedom, 156 capitalism, industrialism, 11 capitalist rationality, 141 Caravaggio, Narcissus, 78 Carolingian Empire, 65 Carr, E.H., 147 Cassirer, Ernst, 147 Cathédrale de Chartres, 58 Cathédrale Notre-Dame, 59 Catholic Church, survival of, 53 Cavafy, Constantine, 70 Cedar Revolution, 43 Chaudhuri, Nirad, 96, 100 Chaudhuri, Sukanta, 93 Chemical Weapons Convention, 150 Chittagong Armoury Raid (1930), 19 Chittagong Hills, 14 Church of Saint-Germain-desPres , 58 Clare Hall, 95 class warfare, 20 Cohen, Ram, 10 Cohn, Hans, 27 Cold War, 41 colonialism, objective of, 12 colonies, markers of domestic power, 12 Commissar of Enlightenment, 54 communism, Western revolutionary tradition, 51 Communist Part of the Soviet Union, 54 constitutional safeguards protection of secularism, 62 Cooper, Robert, 149 Copernicus, 66 Corinthians, 123 Cracow, 133, 135 culture of repudiation, 74 D Dacca, 14 Damodaran, Vinita, 103 Dandi March, 13 Dante’s Inferno, 57 Das, Bina, 19 Das Gupta, Arun Kumar, 93, 94 Das Kapital, 56 Datta-Ray, Sunanda K., 94 Index 169 de Briailles, Pierre Gabriel Chandon, marriage to JeanRemy Moet’s daughter, 111 de Lubicz Jaworowski, Michal (Dr), 131 de Unamuno, Miguel, 71 Dead Sea, 30 Deshpande, Satish, 142 Dostoevsky, Kirilov, 120 E Eco, Umberto, 28 Eden Hall, 74 Eichmann, Adolf, 25 Eliot, T.S., 154 England, tolerance, 16 Enlightenment ideology of Marxism, 140 Eros and Polis, 123 Europe civil wars, 1 provenance of, 63–68 union of different worlds, 64 European Union, supranationalism, 1 Euroscepticism, case against, 148, 149 F Fabian Socialism, 9 Fabrizzo, Don, 82 feudal nobility, 3 Fifth Military Clinical Hospital and Polyclinic, Poland, 130 Final Solution, 25 Finley, Moses, 62 Fitzwilliam College, 95 Fortini, Franco, 82 France Champagne region, 109 Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 58 French Revolution foreign dimensions and repercussions, 41 Zhou Enlai’s view on, 50 From Plato to NATO, 145 Fukuyama, Francis, 59 G Galileo, 66 Gandhi, Mahatma, 13 Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 81 Gasset, Jose Ortega, 72 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), abolishment of, 142 genocides, 33 Gilmour, David, 84 Gorbachev, Mikhail, Reformation, 55 Gramsci, Antonio, 85 Modern Prince, 87 Grand Narrative, departure of, 146 Grass, Gunter, 26 Gray, John, 63 abolishment of GATT, 142 discomfort from downfall of Soviet Union, 140 Gress, David, 145 Grotowski, Jerzy, 134 170 Index Grove, Richard, 103 Guantanamo Bay, 61 Guareschi, Giovannino, 55 H Hamburg, 151, 152 Handley, Nora, 101 Hardt, Michael, 3 Hare School, 92 Calcutta, 8 Harrison, G.B., 92 Hebraism, critique of, 69 Hebranism, struggle with Hellenism, 2 Heikkila, Tuomas, 65 Hellenism, 2, 68 Helsinki Accords, 46 Hicks, Clifford, 17 Ho Chi Minh trail, 13 Hobsbawm, Eric, 11, 85 Holocaust, 27, 28, 30 uniqueness, 31 Holy German Empire, 65 Holy Land, quest for, 30 Homo Europeensis, 67 Homo Ludens, 155 Hotel Sympozjum, 132 House of Moet & Chandon, 109 Huizinga, Johan, 155, 156 Huntington, Samuel, 60 I Indian Civil Service examinations, 10 industrial capitalism, 11 Industrial Revolution, 12 International Atomic Energy Agency, 150 International Criminal Court, 150 Iron Curtain, 44 Israel, discussion with journalists...