Empire, Religion, and Identity: Modern South Asia and the Global Circulation of Ideas (Brill's Indological Library, 59)

This collection brings together case studies that cover a wide religious spectrum: from Hindu, Buddhist, Jaina traditions through reformist ventures such as the Brahmos, to issues in modern Islam and Judaism. ‎Contents ‎Figures ‎Notes on Contributors ‎Chapter 1. Religion, Identity, and South Asia’s Global Entanglements since the fin de siècle: An Introduction (Mukherjee) ‎Part 1. Idioms of Self-Fashioning and International Congresses ‎Chapter 2. Buddhism in the Parliament of World’s Religions, 1893: The Japanese Buddhists and Anagarika Dharmapala (Akai) ‎Chapter 3. Emissary of Nonviolence: Virchand Gandhi and the Chicago World’s Parliament of Religions, 1893 (Long) ‎Chapter 4. The Burden of ‘History’: The Paris Congress of the History of Religions of 1900 and Its Legacy (Mitra) ‎Chapter 5. In Illustrious Footsteps: Yogananda and the 1920 Congress of Religious Liberals (Goldberg) ‎Part 2. Ideas, Movements, and Global Flows ‎Chapter 6. The Brahmo Universalism of Protap Chunder Mozoomdar (1840–1905): Harmonising Reason and Revelation in the New Dispensation (Barua) ‎Chapter 7. Visualising Spaces of Knowledge in the Himalayas: 1830–1917 (Sarkar) ‎Chapter 8. Buddhist Revival and Public Culture in India at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Roychowdhury) ‎Chapter 9. Hindu, Muslim, and Jewish Identities in Modern South Asia (Aafreedi) ‎Chapter 10. The Khilafat Movement in Europe and the Reimagining of Authority in Islam (Zaman) ‎Index "This collection brings together case studies that cover a wide spectrum: from Hindu, Buddhist, Jaina traditions through reformist ventures such as the Brahmos, to issues in modern Islam and Judaism. The first part of the book explores idioms of self-fashioning in global platforms and religious congresses. The second part explicates the nature of movements of such ideas. Cumulatively, they offer fresh and invaluable insights into their histories in modern South Asia against the backdrop of, and in relation to, wider transcultural global flows"-- Provided by publisher