Empire, Religion, and Identity

Soumen Mukherjee, Dr.phil. (2010), University of Heidelberg, teaches History at Presidency University, Kolkata. His publications include the Karim and Rosemin Karim prize-winning book Ismailism and Islam in Modern South Asia: Community and Identity in the Age of Religious Internationals (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

• List of FiguresNotes on Contributors1 Religion, Identity, and South Asia’s Global Entanglements since the fin de siècle: An IntroductionSoumen MukherjeePart 1 Idioms of Self-Fashioning and International Congresses2 Buddhism in the Parliament of World’s Religions, 1893: The Japanese Buddhists and Anagarika DharmapalaToshio Akai3 Emissary of Nonviolence: Virchand Gandhi and the Chicago World’s Parliament of Religions, 1893Jeffery D. Long4 The Burden of ‘History’: The Paris Congress of the History of Religions of 1900 and Its LegacyArpita Mitra5 In Illustrious Footsteps: Yogananda and the 1920 Congress of Religious LiberalsPhilip GoldbergPart 2 Ideas, Movements, and Global Flows6 The Brahmo Universalism of Protap Chunder Mozoomdar (1840–1905): Harmonising Reason and Revelation in the New DispensationAnkur Barua7 Visualising Spaces of Knowledge in the Himalayas: 1830–1917Oyndrila Sarkar8 Buddhist Revival and Public Culture in India at the Turn of the Twentieth CenturyMadhuparna Roychowdhury9 Hindu, Muslim, and Jewish Identities in Modern South AsiaNavras J. Aafreedi10 The Khilafat Movement in Europe and the Reimagining of Authority in IslamFaridah ZamanIndex