01591nam a22002537a 4500003000400000005001700004008004100021020002300062040000800085082001700093084002500110100002500135245007800160260004300238300001700281440003700298520087300335650002001208650002501228650002201253650002401275650002101299650001701320OSt20250825124252.0250825b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781009424950 (HB)  ckul  a294.3bSUR/D  2Colon Classification  aSurendran, Gitanjali  aDemocracy's Dhamma: bBuddhism in the making of Modern India, c.1890-1956  aUK:bCambridge University Press,c2024  axviii, 348p.  aSouth Asian Intellectual History  aIn 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.  aBuddhismvIndia  aAnagarika Dharmapala  aSwami Vivekananda  aRabindranath Tagore  aJawaharlal Nehru  aB R Ambedkar