Introduction: Looking for India in Asia; Part I. The knowledge networks of Greater India: 1. Shifting horizons: Buddhist archaeology and the quest for Serindia; 2. Finding India in Southeast Asia: Early Indocentric approaches; 3. Transimperial knowledge networks and the research paradigm of Greater India; 4. British India and the quest for a new Orientalism: The Greater India Society; 5. 'Colonial art' and the reconfiguration of aesthetic space; Epilogue: The knowledge networks of Greater India in the postcolonial era; Part II. The interwar politics of Greater India: 6. Connecting Orientalism and internationalism: Tagore, Indian Asianism and the historical imagination; 7. Disawoving Indian exceptionalism: Sarkar, 'Modern Greater India' and the Hindu nationalist imagination; 8. A new Nalanda in Bolpur: Visva-Bharati and the quest for a global humanism; Conclusion: Greater India as a political discourse in the interwar period; Conclusion; Epilogue: The afterlives of Greater India; Bibliography; Index.

'This is a landmark study of an influential vision of history that continues to shape debates to this day. It is also a fascinating tale of intellectual collusions across Eurasia as a whole.' Nile Green, author of How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding