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
- 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 & 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
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