ABSTRACT
This chapter considers whether, and to what extent, Gokhale may be considered a cosmopolitan. In addressing this question, it reconstructs the global stage on which Gokhale was active as well as the wider connections and networks he built to give legitimacy and momentum to his political vision. More concretely, the chapter examines Gokhale's first encounter with Britishness and his subsequent political activism in the metropole, including his contribution to the 1911 Universal Races Congress and his engagement with the Moral Education League. In the final part, the chapter analyses the Indian National Congress (INC) leader's active participation in the South Africa Indian question, highlighting the often-ambivalent relationship which existed between imperial affiliations and anticolonial endeavours.
