01686nam a22002777a 4500 OSt 20250825124252.0 250825b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781009424950 (HB) kul 294.3 SUR/D Colon Classification Surendran, Gitanjali 931 Democracy's Dhamma: Buddhism in the making of Modern India, c.1890-1956 UK: Cambridge University Press, 2024 xviii, 348p. South Asian Intellectual History 932 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. Buddhism India 933 Anagarika Dharmapala 934 Swami Vivekananda 935 Rabindranath Tagore 936 Jawaharlal Nehru 937 B R Ambedkar 938 ddc BK 751121 751121 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC PHL PHL PROC 2025-08-25 Modern Book Centre: MBC/0646/2024 Dtd 25/02/2025 1295.00 0 294.3 SUR/D PHL4778 2025-08-25 12:44:03 2025-08-25 BK