... India Congress Committee in New Delhi. Africanization Indian Ocean nationalism African racial categories racialization cosmopolitanism Kutchi language nationalism anti colonial nationalism territorial networks circulation citizenship class emigration Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand gender...

... of transformations in the demand for, and gathering and dispersion of, learning form the West. Dutch studies scholars (rangakusha) formed social networks that included intellectuals, doctors, interpreters, and members of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) who resided on the small island of Deshima in Nagaski harbor...

... assaults were responded in kind with emigration to the colonies. Just as consequential as bodily transportation, however, was material transposition, as when Britons sought to re-create an English town in the Indian hills. Entwined in this development was the rhetorical transposition of Europe to India...

...This book focuses on the crucial role that conceptions of iconic colonial Indian spaces—jungles, cantonments, cities, hill stations, bazaars, clubs—played in the literary and social production of British India. It illuminates the geographical, rhetorical, and ideological underpinnings...

...This book explores the relationship between architecture and asceticism in ancient India, with particular emphasis on the ascetic hut. It considers the central place occupied by the ascetic hut in the development of grand and monumental architecture, from the magisterial cathedrals of Gothic Europe...

...This chapter examines two series of textbooks commissioned by Osmania University that asserted the importance of Islam to the history of civilization and the importance of Muslims to Indian history. The History of India (Tārīkh-i Hind), written by Sayyid Hashmi Faridabadi...

... Gordon S auspicious signs zuisō Kamakura Bakufu medieval period timeframe Foard James H “shunning this defiled world and aspiring to the Pure Land” onri edo gongu jōdo ascetics toolkit Buddhist modernism no-self India Mahāyāna China Amida Daoxuan Daoshi Shandao In the summer...

..., and has recently re-emerged as a playback singer in the last few years. cabaret career Eswari L R India industry Mangeshkar Lata playback singing sexuality Tamil taste voice cinema courtesan Japan Jet Age modernity prostitution Rock social reform authenticity body celebrity classical...

... East India Company EIC factory inventory knife napkin nutmeg oil rice salt sugar tankard water arrack Batavia present–day Jakarta bayonet beer Bombay brandy bridle candle chair cloth copper cot couch desk donkey Dutch East India Company VOC firearm flag furniture fusee...

...This chapter examines the history of the Breukelen case that lasted from 1657 to 1662. In June 1657, a Dutch East India Company (VOC) ship called the Breukelen attacked and seized a Chinese junk in the shipping lanes along the coast of Vietnam. The incident sparked...

...Exile served two purposes in the early colonization of Eastern Indonesia. By exiling indigenous leaders to distant lands, the Dutch East India Company limited the expansive potential of their domains. At the same time, the company used exile to create colonial subjects in limited areas in which...

...This book offers a comprehensive overview of Sikhism, which originated in India’s Punjab region five hundred years ago. As the numbers of Sikhs settling outside of India continues to grow, it is necessary to examine this religion both in its Indian context and as an increasingly global tradition...

...During the turbulent period prior to colonial India's partition and independence, Muslim intellectuals in Hyderabad sought to secularize and reformulate their linguistic, historical, religious, and literary traditions for the sake of a newly conceived national public. Responding to the model...

...This concluding chapter describes how the colonization of Burma and its subsequent annexation into the Government of India in 1886 led to a long trajectory of conflict between Buddhist institutions and the modern state. Colonial attempts to displace Buddhist education and the affinity of Burmese...

...This chapter discusses the historical origins of Buddhism in India and locates the Buddhist “soteriology” in its proper social and religious context. In India, Buddhism disappeared as a major religious force by the end of the tenth century CE, to be reintroduced toward the end of the nineteenth...

...This book delves into the socioreligious milieu of the authors, editors, and propagators of the Rāṣṭrapālapaṛiprcchā-sūtra (Questions of Rāṣṭrapāla), a Buddhist text circulating in India during the first half of the first millennium C.E. The book first reflects upon the problems...

...This chapter provides a brief description of the development of Pure Land Buddhism in India and China. First it takes up the teachings of the Pure Land sūtras which form the basis of Pure Land Buddhism as a whole. Next it turns to the development of Pure Land Buddhism in China. First, it recounts...

... separable from its colonies, particularly so in the case of British India. Britain inserted its own perturbations and ideals into these “Eastern” representations, infusing them with corresponding degrees of derangement and idealized sentiment. Thus the chapter shows how these mixed ideas of India owed much...

.... Drawing on nineteenth-century British representations of India by John Ruskin, G. A. Henty, and Harriet Tytler, this chapter discusses the ways in which imperial iconographies of British India—the concept of the picturesque and the treatment of land as “virgin soil” ready for development—compare...