The United States and South Asia from the Age of Empire to Decolonization : : A History of Entanglements /

The United States and South Asia from the Age of Empire to Decolonization : : A History of Entanglements / / ed. by Nico Slate, Harald Fischer-Tiné.

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The contributions assembled in this volume present cutting-edge research that examines the network of Indo-American interconnections over a wider time frame. The case studies stretch into the early decades of the American republic hinting at a longer history of mutual influence and exchange, beyond...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
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Fischer-Tiné, Harald,
Slate, Nico,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Global Connections: Routes and Roots ; 5
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction: Religion, Politics, and Development ― Mapping the Sites and Domains of Indo-American Exchange, c. 1850–1970
  • Part I: Religion and Culture
  • Chapter 1. A Gold Rush, Steamships, and Blackface : The New York Serenaders in San Francisco and India, early-1850s.
  • Chapter 2. The Sepoy Rebellion and American Global Ambition
  • Chapter 3. Fakir : How a Word from India Moved Through American Popular Culture for Nearly a Century
  • Part II: Missionaries and Political Activists
  • Chapter 4. American Humanitarianism in Colonial South Asia : The Famine Relief of the American Marathi Mission in Bombay, 1896–1900
  • Chapter 5. ‘One fifth of the world’s boyhood’ : American ‘Boyology’ and the YMCA’s work with early adolescents in India (c. 1900–1950)
  • Chapter 6. Taraknath Das: Race and Citizenship between India and the U.S.A.
  • Chapter 7. Socialism, Nonviolence, and Civil Rights : The American Journeys of Rammanohar Lohia
  • Part III: Social Sciences, Development Initiatives & Technocracy
  • Chapter 8. Constructing an Indian Sociology : ‘Karimpur’, U.S. Area Studies and Cold War Social Science
  • Chapter 9. The Development of Uttar Pradesh Agricultural University
  • Chapter 10. The Bankura Horse as Development Object : Women’s Work, Indo-American Exchanges, and the Global Handicraft Trade
  • Afterword
  • Bibliography
  • About the Authors
  • Index

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