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084			_2Colon Classification
100			_aSurendran, Gitanjali _9931
245			_aDemocracy's Dhamma: _bBuddhism in the making of Modern India, c.1890-1956
260			_aUK: _bCambridge University Press, _c2024
300			_axviii, 348p.
440			_aSouth Asian Intellectual History _9932
520			_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.
650			_aBuddhism _vIndia _9933
650			_aAnagarika Dharmapala _9934
650			_aSwami Vivekananda _9935
650			_aRabindranath Tagore _9936
650			_aJawaharlal Nehru _9937
650			_aB R Ambedkar _9938
942			_2ddc _cBK
999			_c751121 _d751121