Democracy's Dhamma - Gitanjali Surendran

Democracy's Dhamma

Buddhism in the Making of Modern India, c. 1890–1956
Buch | Hardcover
350 Seiten
2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-42495-0 (ISBN)
105,95 inkl. MwSt
Democracy's Dhamma is a genealogy of the engagement with Buddhism in modern India illustrating how Buddhist activists experimented through Buddhist ideas and heritage with socialism, liberalism and democracy.
In 1956, B. R. Ambedkar publicly converted to Buddhism raising questions about his turn from constitutionalism to religion. The answer lies in Buddhism itself. In the late colonial era, the struggle to produce an appropriate Buddhism for a nation-in-the-making reveals a secret history foundational to modern India. Thinkers, activists, reformers, pilgrims, and monks from around South, Southeast and East Asia discussed universalism, nationalism, modernity, democracy, and caste radicalism and advocated an Indian return to Buddhism and the Buddha. This book traces this genealogy through the Buddhist itineraries and political projects of figures like Anagarika Dharmapala, Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, Jawaharlal Nehru, Vinayak D. Savarkar, Rahul Sankrityayan and Ambedkar, to reveal how Buddhism emerged as democracy's dhamma, the religion of democracy.

Gitanjali Surendran is Professor of History at O.P. Jindal Global University. Her research interests are modern South Asian cultural and intellectual history, environmental and gender history. She is also interested in public history and is exploring ways to bring academic history into public discourse. She is the author of Anand Bhawan: An Intimate History (Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund, 2018).

List of Figures; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Buddhism in the Making of Modern India; 1. Anagarika Dharmapala in India; 2. Dharmapala and Vivekananda in an Age of Universalism; 3. Buddhism and the Bhadralok; 4. The Buddhist Bay: Buddhist Mobility across the Bay of Bengal; 5. Buddhist Relics, the Mahabodhi Temple and the Discourse of a Shared Buddhism; 6. Buddhism as a Civil Religion and Hindutva; 7. Buddhism, Anti-Caste Radicalism and Socialism; 8. Ambedkar, Dhamma and Democracy; Conclusion: The Destinies of Buddhism; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.11.2024
Reihe/Serie South Asian Intellectual History
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Religionsgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Buddhismus
ISBN-10 1-009-42495-5 / 1009424955
ISBN-13 978-1-009-42495-0 / 9781009424950
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