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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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This introduction to the special forum “Indenture and its Afterlives” offers a snapshot of three articles by Ashutosh Kumar, Riyad Koya, and Andrea Wright, on topics such as contract, legal history and the abolition of indentured labor, and consent. It situates these contributions within a brief historiography of the study of South Asian migrations in…
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Over the past ten years, we have developed an extensive oral archive focused on the life histories of Banglaphone intellectuals in the age of decolonisation (1940s–1980s), the Bengali Intellectuals…
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Azfar Moin’s The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam prompts a consideration not only of the histories of Islam and early modern connected histories of Central and South Asia, but also of current debates about local and global history-writing. Moin’s work intersects with a strand of comparative world history—following Victor Lieberman’s Strange Parallels—but…
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Though this reflection is doubtlessly essential for understanding South Asia in the context of Islamic and global history, it begs the qustion of power, marginalization, and hegemony within South Asian Islam itself.
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Every day, men and women risk their lives to stop violence in religiously charged conflicts around the world. You may not know their names – but you should. Peacemakers in Action, Volume 2 provides a window into the triumphs, risks, failures, and lessons learned of eight remarkable, religiously motivated peacemakers including: • A Methodist bishop…
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Just a quick look at your local media on any given day is a powerful reminder that devastating armed conflicts worldwide are destroying lives and whole communities often in the name of religion. Hidden in the news, if reported on at all, are the brave religious leaders in these zones of violence, working to bring…
