Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > History of religion
|
Buy Now
Dust on the Throne - The Search for Buddhism in Modern India (Paperback)
Loot Price: R811
Discovery Miles 8 110
|
|
Dust on the Throne - The Search for Buddhism in Modern India (Paperback)
Series: South Asia in Motion
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
Received wisdom has it that Buddhism disappeared from India, the
land of its birth, between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries,
long forgotten until British colonial scholars re-discovered it in
the early 1800s. Its full-fledged revival, so the story goes, only
occurred in 1956, when the Indian civil rights pioneer Dr. B.R.
Ambedkar converted to Buddhism along with half a million of his
Dalit (formerly "untouchable") followers. This, however, is only
part of the story. Dust on the Throne reframes discussions about
the place of Buddhism in the subcontinent from the early nineteenth
century onwards, uncovering the integral, yet unacknowledged, role
that Indians played in the making of modern global Buddhism in the
century prior to Ambedkar's conversion, and the numerous ways that
Buddhism gave powerful shape to modern Indian history. Through an
extensive examination of disparate materials held at archives and
temples across South Asia, Douglas Ober explores Buddhist religious
dynamics in an age of expanding colonial empires, intra-Asian
connectivity, and the histories of Buddhism produced by nineteenth
and twentieth century Indian thinkers. While Buddhism in
contemporary India is often disparaged as being little more than
tattered manuscripts and crumbling ruins, this book opens new
avenues for understanding its substantial socio-political impact
and intellectual legacy.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.