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(2015) Philosophy in colonial India, Dordrecht, Springer.
This essay presents an account of the way F.W. Nietzsche's ideas were received and interpreted by Shankar Ramachandra Rajwade (1879–1952), a notable Indian philosopher based in Pune. The focus is on the latter's book which contains a Marathi translation of and commentary on The Antichrist . Rajwade's intellectual project—informed by his keen desire to bolster the traditional Hindu social order and its philosophical foundation—is presented as an example of "radical translation" in two senses: It goes to the root of Nietzsche's theoretical argument; and more importantly, it reinvents the German thinker's "aristocratic radicalism " in an indigenous context.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-2223-1_10
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Kulkarni, M. (2015)., Radical translation: S. R. Rajwade's encounter with F. W. Nietzsche, in S. Deshpande (ed.), Philosophy in colonial India, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 195-208.
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