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An interesting route of expansion on Tirumalai_Krishnamacharya would be the relationship with Swami Vivekananda, the Bengali renaissance, and Hindu nationalism. As well, the relationship in the other direction, to B.K.S. Iyengar, Pattabhi Jois, and Western popular yoga might be recast in this light. Krishnamacharya seems the pivotal figure in taking a resurgence in nationalist inspired study of Hindu philosophy, and isolating or perfecting the practice one segment (Yoga), which caught the imagination of western orientalists.

Also see a parallel line from Sivananda to Swami_Vishnu-devananda and the Sivananda Yoga centres.

Good references for such study might be:


 * Elizabeth De Michelis.  A History of Modern Yoga: Patanjali and Western Esotericism. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005 ISBN 0826487726
 * Joseph S. Alter. Yoga in Modern India: The Body between Science and Philosophy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, (2004)
 * Joseph S. Alter. Yoga at the Fin de Siecle: Muscular Christianity with a 'Hindu' Twist. Journal of the History of Sport, Volume 23, Issue 5 August 2006, pp. 759 - 776.
 * Maya Burger. What Price Salvation? The Exchange of Salvation Goods between India and the West. Social Compass, Vol. 53, No. 1, 2006, pp. 81-95
 * Mark Singleton. Yoga, Eugenics, and Spiritual Darwinism in the Early Twentieth Century. International Journal of Hindu Studies. Volume 11, Number 2 / August, 2007,  pp. 125-146
 * Chandrima Chakraborty. The Hindu ascetic as fitness instructor: Reviving faith in yoga. Journal of the History of Sport, Volume 24, Issue 9 September 2007, pp. 1172 - 1186
 * Mario Prayer. Sadhana and Nationalism: Yoga, Sakti and Des Seva in Subhas Chandra Bose. South Asia Research, Vol. 17, No. 1, 1997, pp. 37-70
 * Peter Van Der Veer. Colonial Cosmopolitanisms. pp. 165-179  in Conceiving Cosmopolitanism: Theory, Context and Practice. Steven Vertovec, Robin Cohen (eds). Oxford University Press, (2002) ISBN 0199252289
 * Klas Nevrin. Krishnamacharya’s Viniyoga: On Modern Yoga and Sri Vaisnavism. Journal of Vaishnava Studies, Vol. 14, no. 1, 2005, pp.65-94.