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The attempt to expand the discourse of science and religion by considering the pluralistic landscape of today’s world requires not only adding new voices from more religious traditions but a rethinking of the basic categories of the discourse, that is, “science,” “religion,” and the notion that the main issue to be investigated is the relationship…
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The Congress politician Rezaul Karim (1902–93), a prominent Muslim from Calcutta who actively critiqued the idea of Pakistan as it was being developed in the 1930s and 1940s, occupies a curious place in the history of Muslim India. As one of the most vocal Muslims who questioned the very idea of the Muslim League from…
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Contributed articles compiled on 50th year completion of Bangladesh History Association on cultural legacy of Bengal.
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New Settler Histories at the Edges of Empire: “Asiatics,” Settlers, and Law in Colonial South Africa
The history of Indians in colonial South Africa betrays a long history of settlement, from at least the mid-seventeenth century, regulated by inter-imperial spaces of negotiation, first via the regulation of religion and custom in the 1795–1814 period and then via the regulation of mobile laborers a century later in the high era of legal…
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BRINGING together insights from socio-legal studies, histories of Christianity, secularism studies, and political economy, this roundtable explores recent approaches to religion in colonial India. Highlighting three areas of research in the history of colonial India, these sites of engagement include the political economy of the Swaminarayan community, Christianity’s impacts on Dalits, particularly in Bengal, and…
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We think we know cultural appropriation when we see it. Blackface or Native American headdresses as Halloween costumes―these clearly give offense. But what about Cardi B posing as the Hindu goddess Durga in a Reebok ad, AA’s twelve-step invocation of God, or the earnest namaste you utter at the end of yoga class? Liz Bucar…
