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Introduction : Placing the Past, Envisioning the Future : Buddhist Memory, Material Traces, and the Politics of Reinvention in Modern India Ober, Douglas; Geary, David, 1976-
Abstract
This Special Issue of CSSAAME ties together a series of modern histories and contemporary ethnographies of Buddhist spaces spread across the Indian subcontinent. Underlining each of the four essays is a concern for the modern fashioning and reimagining of India as a Buddhist “homeland.” In the past century and a half, Buddhist homeland discourses in South Asia have fostered heightened contact between national leaders, Buddhist royalty, entrepreneurs, artists, monastics and pilgrim-travelers in ways that build upon historical and ritual precedents while simultaneously crafting new paradigms within a transnational, postcolonial arena. Taking inspiration from this translocative orientation, the contributors explore pre-colonial histories of Buddhist movement alongside more recent networks of Buddhist restoration in the subcontinent, with particular focus on the role of social memory and material culture in shaping the modern episteme. The essays gathered here further these inquiries by exploring how these connections have changed in the context of modern India and how the textures of these encounters cut across national, ethnic, religious, linguistic and doctrinal lines.
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Introduction : Placing the Past, Envisioning the Future : Buddhist Memory, Material Traces, and the Politics of Reinvention in Modern India
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Duke University Press
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2023-05-01
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| Description |
This Special Issue of CSSAAME ties together a series of modern histories and contemporary
ethnographies of Buddhist spaces spread across the Indian subcontinent. Underlining each of the
four essays is a concern for the modern fashioning and reimagining of India as a Buddhist
“homeland.” In the past century and a half, Buddhist homeland discourses in South Asia have
fostered heightened contact between national leaders, Buddhist royalty, entrepreneurs, artists,
monastics and pilgrim-travelers in ways that build upon historical and ritual precedents while
simultaneously crafting new paradigms within a transnational, postcolonial arena. Taking
inspiration from this translocative orientation, the contributors explore pre-colonial histories of
Buddhist movement alongside more recent networks of Buddhist restoration in the subcontinent,
with particular focus on the role of social memory and material culture in shaping the modern
episteme. The essays gathered here further these inquiries by exploring how these connections
have changed in the context of modern India and how the textures of these encounters cut across
national, ethnic, religious, linguistic and doctrinal lines.
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eng
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2023-09-15
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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10.14288/1.0435903
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Douglas Ober, David Geary; Introduction: Placing the Past, Envisioning the Future: Buddhist Memory, Material Traces, and the Politics of Reinvention in Modern India. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 1 May 2023; 43 (1): 3–9.
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10.1215/1089201X-10375305
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Reviewed
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Faculty
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Duke University Press
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International