Democracy's dhamma : Buddhism in the making of modern India, c. 1890-1956 / Gitanjali Surendran.
| Author/creator | Surendran, Gitanjali author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024. |
| Description | pages cm. |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Buddhism in the making of modern India, c. 1890-1956 |
| Series | South Asian intellectual history South Asian intellectual history. ^A1479655 |
| Abstract | "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 such as 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Surendran, Gitanjali. Democracy's dhamma Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024 9781009424974 |
| LCCN | 2024024357 |
| ISBN | 9781009424950 |
| ISBN | 1009424955 |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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