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.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fischer-Tiné, Harald, editor.

Slate, Nico (Professor of history), editor.

Series:

Global connections (Leiden University Press) ; volume 5.

Global connections: routes and roots ; volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decolonization--South Asia--History--20th century.

Decolonization.

United States--Foreign relations--South Asia.

United States.

South Asia--Foreign relations--United States.

South Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Leiden University Press, 2022.

Summary:

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 American republic's early decades, hinting at a longer history of mutual influence and exchange, beyond the registers of the American century of globalization. By bringing together academics working across disciplines ranging from history to cultural and literary studies, comparative religion, political science and sociology, this volume thus foregrounds and historicizes the complex, multi-sited, polyvalent nature of the Indo-US encounter. At the same time, the book explores the possibilities of methodologically engaging with established categories - such as the nation, the imperial and Empire - and test alternative typologies to understand this encounter better. Taken together, our authors reconstruct the myriad ways in which Americans and Indians have engaged with each other through trade, diplomacy, intellectual comradeship, missionary evangelism and revolutionary fervor.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jan 2025).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789400604421

9400604424

OCLC:

1371970945