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

• Superior document: Global Connections
• TeilnehmendeR: Fischer-Tiné, Harald,; Slate, Nico,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Leiden University Press,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Global connections.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (314 pages)
• Notes: TABLE OF CONTENTS (HARALD FISCHER-TINÉ, SUJEET GEORGE, and NICO SLATE), Introduction: Religion, Politics, and Development . Mapping the Sites and Domains of Indo-American Exchange, c. 1850-1970 Part. I: Religion and Culture 1. (BRADLEY SHOPE), A Gold rush, Steamships, and Blackface: The New York Serenaders in San Francisco and India, early-1850s 2. (SUSAN M. RYAN), The Sepoy Rebellion and American Global Ambition 3. (PHILIP DESLIPPE), Fakir: How a Word from India Moved Through American Popular Culture for Nearly a Century Part. II: Missionaries and Political Activists 4. (JOANNA SIMONOW), American Humanitarianism in Colonial South Asia: The Famine Relief of the American Marathi Mission in Bombay, 1896-1900 5. (HARALD FISCHER-TINÉ), 'One fifth of the world's boyhood': American 'Boyology' and the YMCA's work with early adolescents in India (c. 1900-1950) 6. (NEILESH BOSE), Taraknath Das: Race and Citizenship between India and the U.S.A. 7. (NICO SLATE), Socialism, Nonviolence, and Civil Rights: The American Journeys of Rammanohar Lohia Part III: Social Sciences, Development Initiatives and Technocracy 8. (SUJEET GEORGE), Constructing an Indian Sociology: 'Karimpur', U.S: Area Studies and Cold War Social Science 9. (PRAKASH KUMAR), The Development of Uttar Pradesh Agricultural University 10. (NICOLE SACKLEY), The Bankura Horse as Development Object: Women's Work, Indo-American Exchanges, and the Global Handicraft Trade (MARK REEVES), Afterword Bibliography About the Authors Index .; "Amsterdam University Press"

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...

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• Introduction
• Religion, Politics, and Development ― Mapping the Sites and Domains of Indo-American Exchange, c. 1850-19701
• Harald Fischer-Tiné, Sujeet George and Nico Slate
• Part I
• Religion and Culture
• Chapter 1
• A Gold Rush, Steamships, and Blackface: The New York Serenaders in San Francisco and India, early-1850s.
• Bradley Shope
• Chapter 2
• The Sepoy Rebellion and American Global Ambition
• Susan M. Ryan
• Chapter 3
• Fakir: How a Word from India Moved Through American Popular Culture for Nearly a Century
• Philip Deslippe
• 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
• Joanna Simonow
• Chapter 5
• 'One fifth of the world's boyhood': American 'Boyology' and the YMCA's work with early adolescents in India (c. 1900-1950)
• Harald Fischer-Tiné
• Chapter 6
• Taraknath Das: Race and Citizenship between India and the U.S.A.
• Neilesh Bose
• Chapter 7
• Socialism, Nonviolence, and Civil Rights: The American Journeys of Rammanohar Lohia
• Nico Slate
• Part III
• Social Sciences, Development Initiatives &amp
• Technocracy
• Chapter 8
• Constructing an Indian Sociology: 'Karimpur', U.S. Area Studies and Cold War Social Science
• Sujeet George
• Chapter 9
• The Development of Uttar Pradesh Agricultural University
• Prakash Kumar
• Chapter 10
• The Bankura Horse as Development Object: Women's Work, Indo-American Exchanges, and the Global Handicraft Trade
• Nicole Sackley
• Afterword
• Mark Reeves
• Bibliography
• About the Authors
• Index.